§ The result
PageUp leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of PageUp and Paycor comes out 64 (D) to 40 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 24-point lead for PageUp. PageUp takes all 7 criteria and Paycor none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, PageUp 63 to Paycor 55. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — PageUp 80, Paycor 25 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage PageUp holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
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
PageUp and Paycor 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.
| Record | PageUp | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 1997 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
PageUp 80 · Paycor 25
9.9 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
PageUp 74 · Paycor 40
6.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
PageUp 55 · Paycor 38
2.0 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
PageUp 40 · Paycor 27
1.9 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
PageUp 63 · Paycor 50
1.9 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
PageUp 64 · Paycor 55
1.1 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
PageUp 63 · Paycor 55
0.6 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +24.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is PageUp minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | PageUp | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 40 | +34 | +6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 25 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 27 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 40 (F) | +24 | +24.4 |
§ 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 | PageUp | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 PageUp and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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