§ The result
Paycom leads Pulsifi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Paycom finishes 17 points clear of Pulsifi under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 33 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Paycom leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Pulsifi is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Paycom leads is FRIA Support, Paycom 30 to Pulsifi 25. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Paycom 68, Pulsifi 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Paycom holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Paycom is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pulsifi under Assessment 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 Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paycom | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 1998 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycom 68 · Pulsifi 30
7.6 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycom 62 · Pulsifi 40
3.3 weighted points to Paycom
18% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycom 38 · Pulsifi 20
3.2 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycom 38 · Pulsifi 28
1.2 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycom 60 · Pulsifi 46
1.1 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycom 30 · Pulsifi 25
0.8 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +17.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +17.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycom minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Paycom | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 30 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 46 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 33 (F) | +17 | +17.2 |
§ 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 | Paycom | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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