§ The result
Paylocity leads HireQuotient by 9 points.
Paylocity scores 43 and HireQuotient 34 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Paylocity: Paylocity is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and HireQuotient on Human Oversight Design. The advantage Paylocity holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireQuotient 18, Paylocity 33, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 27% of the weighted points Paylocity gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 3 secondary categories: Screening, Scheduling and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Paylocity 33
2.7 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Paylocity 54
2.1 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Paylocity 44
1.8 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Paylocity 42
1.4 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Paylocity 30
1.2 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Paylocity 50
0.8 weighted points to HireQuotient
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Paylocity 58
0.6 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 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 -9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 33 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 54 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 43 (F) | -9 | -9.0 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next