§ The result
Paycom leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
Paycom, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 14 points above micro1, filed under Screening: 50 against 36 under rubric v1.0. Paycom takes all 7 criteria from micro1 without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Human Oversight Design, micro1 48 to Paycom 55. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (micro1 50, Paycom 68, 20% weight), is only 25% of the weighted advantage Paycom builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
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
micro1 is filed under Screening AI, Paycom under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only micro1 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | micro1 | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2022 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · Paycom 68
3.6 weighted points to Paycom
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · Paycom 38
3.2 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · Paycom 62
2.5 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · Paycom 38
1.6 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · Paycom 30
1.2 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · Paycom 60
1.2 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · Paycom 55
0.8 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is micro1 minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 68 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 50 (F) | -14 | -14.2 |
§ 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 | micro1 | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 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% | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 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 micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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