§ The result
Paylocity leads micro1 by 7 points.
Paylocity scores 43 and micro1 36 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Paylocity: Paylocity is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and micro1 on Article 11 Technical Documentation. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (micro1 25, Paylocity 42) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (micro1 20, Paylocity 33), 29% of the weighted advantage Paylocity builds across the 6 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
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
micro1 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, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | micro1 | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2022 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · Paylocity 33
2.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · Paylocity 42
2.0 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · Paylocity 54
1.3 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · Paylocity 44
1.2 weighted points to micro1
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · Paylocity 30
1.2 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · Paylocity 58
1.0 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · Paylocity 50
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 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 micro1 minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 44 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 43 (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 | micro1 | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 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 | 11 | 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; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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