§ The result
HiredScore leads Paylocity by 9 points.
HiredScore scores 52 and Paylocity 43 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. HiredScore leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Paylocity leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. HiredScore takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiredScore 65, Paylocity 44), which is 43% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, HiredScore 55 to Paylocity 33.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Paylocity is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Paylocity 44
4.2 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Paylocity 33
4.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Paylocity 50
1.2 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Paylocity 42
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Paylocity 58
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Paylocity 54
0.1 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 44 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 43 (F) | +9 | +8.8 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 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 HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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