§ The result
iMocha leads Paycom on 6 of the 7 criteria.
iMocha scores 56 and Paycom 50 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. iMocha leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Paycom is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 iMocha leads is Data Governance Disclosure, iMocha 66 to Paycom 62. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (iMocha 48, Paycom 38) and FRIA Support at 15% (iMocha 38, Paycom 30), the second being 21% of the weighted advantage iMocha holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
Vendor profile
Paycom
Paycom is a single-database human capital management and payroll platform whose applicant tracking system automates recruiting with resume parsing, keyword/knockout candidate filtering, automated correspondence, generative job-description writing, and a command-driven AI data-query engine (IWant).
§ The record
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, Paycom 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 and Colorado AI Act. Only iMocha is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 21% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Paycom 30
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Paycom 38
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Paycom 38
1.1 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Paycom 55
1.1 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Paycom 62
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Paycom 60
0.5 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 68 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 38 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 50 (F) | +6 | +5.6 |
§ 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 | iMocha | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for iMocha sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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