§ The result
HiBob leads Paycor by 6 points.
HiBob finishes 6 points ahead of Paycor under rubric v1.0, 46 to 40, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. HiBob leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Paycor leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage HiBob holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HiBob 55, Paycor 40, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 39% of the weighted points HiBob gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
Vendor profile
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
§ The record
HiBob and Paycor are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HiBob | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiBob 55 · Paycor 40
3.0 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiBob 35 · Paycor 27
1.2 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiBob 47 · Paycor 38
1.1 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiBob 57 · Paycor 50
1.1 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiBob 63 · Paycor 55
1.0 weighted points to HiBob
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiBob 20 · Paycor 25
0.9 weighted points to Paycor
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiBob 61 · Paycor 55
0.5 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiBob minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | HiBob | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 38 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 55 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 40 (F) | +6 | +6.9 |
§ 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 | HiBob | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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