§ The result
Paylocity takes the total, Humanly takes more of the criteria.
Paylocity (ATS-integrated) edges Humanly (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 43 to 42. Humanly leads more of the criteria than Paylocity — 4 to 3 — but Data Governance Disclosure, which Paylocity leads, carries 15% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Paylocity. Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Humanly 40, Paylocity 54 — and at a 15% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Humanly
Conversational AI for high-volume recruiting that engages, screens, and schedules candidates across chat, SMS, email, voice, and video, with structured AI interviews and automated scoring.
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
Humanly is filed under Screening AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Scheduling and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Humanly | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Humanly 40 · Paylocity 54
2.1 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Humanly 30 · Paylocity 42
1.4 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Humanly 40 · Paylocity 33
1.3 weighted points to Humanly
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Humanly 58 · Paylocity 50
1.0 weighted points to Humanly
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Humanly 35 · Paylocity 30
0.8 weighted points to Humanly
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Humanly 52 · Paylocity 58
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Humanly 45 · Paylocity 44
0.2 weighted points to Humanly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Humanly minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Humanly | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 44 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 54 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 43 (F) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | Humanly | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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% | 12 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Humanly has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Humanly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Humanly last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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