§ The result
Oracle Recruiting leads Paylocity by 6 points.
Oracle Recruiting scores 49 and Paylocity 43 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Oracle Recruiting leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Paylocity leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Oracle Recruiting 60, Paylocity 44 — and at a 20% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Oracle Recruiting holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Oracle Recruiting
Oracle Recruiting (part of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, formerly Oracle Recruiting Cloud) is an enterprise applicant tracking system whose embedded AI suggests and ranks candidates, finds similar candidates, and generates 0-5 generative-AI match ratings against job requisitions to assist recruiters.
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
Oracle Recruiting and Paylocity 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. Only Paylocity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Oracle Recruiting | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1977 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Paylocity 44
3.2 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Paylocity 50
1.2 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Paylocity 54
0.9 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Oracle Recruiting 35 · Paylocity 30
0.8 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
18% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Oracle Recruiting 30 · Paylocity 33
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Oracle Recruiting 62 · Paylocity 58
0.3 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Oracle Recruiting 40 · Paylocity 42
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Oracle Recruiting minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Oracle Recruiting | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 43 (F) | +6 | +5.6 |
§ 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 | Oracle Recruiting | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Oracle Recruiting has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 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 Oracle Recruiting, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Oracle Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next