§ The result
Paylocity leads HeroHunt.ai by 13 points.
Paylocity, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above HeroHunt.ai, filed under Sourcing: 43 against 30 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Paylocity: Paylocity is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and HeroHunt.ai on Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HeroHunt.ai 20, Paylocity 44, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
Vendor profile
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
§ The record
HeroHunt.ai is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Paylocity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Paylocity 44
4.8 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Paylocity 33
4.1 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Paylocity 42
1.7 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Paylocity 54
1.3 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Paylocity 58
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Paylocity 50
0.6 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Paylocity 30
0.4 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 44 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 33 | -23 | -4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 43 (F) | -13 | -12.6 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeroHunt.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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