§ The result
iMocha leads Paylocity on all 7 criteria.
iMocha sits 13 points above Paylocity under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 43 — with iMocha filed under Assessment and Paylocity under ATS-integrated. iMocha leads every one of the 7 criteria, Paylocity none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, iMocha 48 to Paylocity 42. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (iMocha 68, Paylocity 44, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage iMocha holds across the 7 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
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
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · Paylocity 44
4.8 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Paylocity 33
2.0 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Paylocity 54
1.8 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Paylocity 50
1.7 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Paylocity 30
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Paylocity 42
0.7 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Paylocity 58
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 44 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 33 | +11 | +2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 54 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 43 (F) | +13 | +12.8 |
§ 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 | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 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 | 11 | 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; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next