§ The result
iMocha leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
iMocha finishes 16 points clear of Paycor under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 40 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. iMocha takes all 7 criteria and Paycor none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, iMocha 64 to Paycor 55. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (iMocha 68, Paycor 40, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage iMocha builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
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
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, Paycor 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 | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · Paycor 40
5.6 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Paycor 25
3.4 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Paycor 50
2.4 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Paycor 27
1.6 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Paycor 38
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Paycor 55
1.1 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Paycor 55
0.9 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 40 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 25 | +19 | +3.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 40 (F) | +16 | +16.2 |
§ 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 | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 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 iMocha and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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