§ The result
Indeed leads Paylocity by 7 points.
Indeed scores 50 and Paylocity 43 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Indeed: Indeed is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Paylocity on Post-Market Monitoring. The advantage Indeed holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Indeed 58, Paylocity 44, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Indeed gains across the 6 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
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
Indeed is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paylocity 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. Only Paylocity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Indeed | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Indeed 58 · Paylocity 44
2.8 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Indeed 63 · Paylocity 50
1.6 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Indeed 38 · Paylocity 30
1.2 weighted points to Indeed
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Indeed 38 · Paylocity 33
0.9 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Indeed 58 · Paylocity 54
0.6 weighted points to Indeed
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Indeed 64 · Paylocity 58
0.5 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Indeed 40 · Paylocity 42
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Indeed minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Indeed | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 44 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 43 (F) | +7 | +7.3 |
§ 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 | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 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 Indeed sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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