§ The result
Paylocity leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Paylocity finishes 20 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 43 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Paylocity leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Data Governance Disclosure among them; Mercor leads none. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 22, Paylocity 54, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 24% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
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
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Paylocity 54
4.8 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Paylocity 44
4.4 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Paylocity 33
4.1 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Paylocity 42
2.6 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Paylocity 30
1.5 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Paylocity 58
1.4 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Paylocity 50
1.0 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -19.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 44 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 33 | -23 | -4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 54 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 43 (F) | -20 | -19.9 |
§ 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 | Mercor | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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