§ The result
Knockri leads Paycor by 7 points.
Knockri scores 47 and Paycor 40 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Video interview and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Knockri, with 1 level: Knockri is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Paycor on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Knockri 55, Paycor 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Knockri holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
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
Knockri is filed under Video interview AI, Paycor under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Knockri is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Knockri | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Knockri 55 · Paycor 40
3.0 weighted points to Knockri
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Knockri 35 · Paycor 25
1.8 weighted points to Knockri
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Knockri 35 · Paycor 27
1.2 weighted points to Knockri
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Knockri 55 · Paycor 50
0.8 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Knockri 60 · Paycor 55
0.6 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Knockri 35 · Paycor 38
0.4 weighted points to Paycor
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 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 +7.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Knockri minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Knockri | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 40 (F) | +7 | +7.0 |
§ 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 | Knockri | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 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% | 5 | 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% | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 |
Knockri has 41 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 Knockri and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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