§ The result
Paycom leads Pillar on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Paycom sits 10 points above Pillar under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 40 — with Paycom filed under ATS-integrated and Pillar under Screening. Paycom leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Pillar is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Paycom leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Paycom 38 to Pillar 33. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paycom 68, Pillar 42 — and at a 20% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Paycom holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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).
Vendor profile
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
Paycom is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pillar under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pillar is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paycom | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1998 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycom 68 · Pillar 42
5.2 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycom 62 · Pillar 45
2.5 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycom 55 · Pillar 48
0.8 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycom 60 · Pillar 50
0.8 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycom 38 · Pillar 33
0.6 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycom minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | Paycom | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 42 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 40 (F) | +10 | +10.0 |
§ 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 | Paycom | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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