§ The result
2 points separate hireEZ and Paycor.
hireEZ (Sourcing) edges Paycor (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 42 to 40. hireEZ leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Paycor leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, is both the widest raw gap (hireEZ 60, Paycor 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage hireEZ holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
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
hireEZ is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paycor 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 | hireEZ | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · Paycor 50
1.5 weighted points to hireEZ
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Paycor 25
0.9 weighted points to hireEZ
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · Paycor 40
0.4 weighted points to Paycor
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Paycor 55
0.4 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · Paycor 27
0.3 weighted points to Paycor
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · Paycor 55
0.2 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 40 (F) | +2 | +2.3 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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