§ The result
HiringBranch leads Paylocity by 9 points.
HiringBranch scores 52 and Paylocity 43 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. HiringBranch leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Paylocity leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, Paylocity 33 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
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
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Paylocity 33
4.9 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Paylocity 44
3.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Paylocity 30
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Paylocity 58
0.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Paylocity 50
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Paylocity 42
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Paylocity 54
0.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 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 +9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 43 (F) | +9 | +9.4 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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