§ The result
Paycom leads JobAdder by 5 points.
Inside the ATS-integrated cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Paycom on 50 and JobAdder on 45, 5 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Paycom, with 1 level: Paycom is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and JobAdder on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — JobAdder 50, Paycom 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 68% of the weighted advantage Paycom holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
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
JobAdder and Paycom are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | JobAdder | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Paycom 68
3.6 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Paycom 62
0.9 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Paycom 38
0.6 weighted points to JobAdder
18% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Paycom 38
0.5 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · Paycom 60
0.2 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Paycom 55
0.1 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 68 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 38 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 50 (F) | -5 | -4.7 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 5 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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