§ The result
Indeed leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
Indeed sits 10 points above Paycor under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 40 — with Indeed filed under Sourcing and Paycor under ATS-integrated. Indeed is ahead of Paycor on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Post-Market Monitoring at Indeed 40 to Paycor 38. The advantage Indeed holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Indeed 58, Paycor 40, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 34% of the weighted points Indeed gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Indeed
Job marketplace whose employer-side AI (the Talent Scout agent, Sourcing Assistant, Smart Screening and candidate matching) sources, ranks and scores candidates from Indeed's profile pool and applicant flow and drafts outreach to them.
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
Indeed is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paycor under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Indeed | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Indeed 58 · Paycor 40
3.6 weighted points to Indeed
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Indeed 38 · Paycor 25
2.3 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Indeed 38 · Paycor 27
1.6 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Indeed 58 · Paycor 50
1.2 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Indeed 63 · Paycor 55
1.0 weighted points to Indeed
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Indeed 64 · Paycor 55
0.7 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Indeed 40 · Paycor 38
0.2 weighted points to Indeed
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Indeed minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Indeed | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 40 (F) | +10 | +10.7 |
§ 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 | Indeed | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources 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% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 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 Indeed and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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