§ The result
Paycom leads Recruitly by 9 points.
Paycom finishes 9 points ahead of Recruitly under rubric v1.0, 50 to 41, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Paycom: Paycom is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Recruitly on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paycom 68, Recruitly 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Paycom holds across the 4 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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Paycom and Recruitly 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 | Paycom | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 1998 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycom 68 · Recruitly 45
4.6 weighted points to Paycom
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycom 38 · Recruitly 15
4.1 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycom 62 · Recruitly 45
2.5 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycom 38 · Recruitly 45
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycom 30 · Recruitly 35
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycom 55 · Recruitly 60
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycom 60 · Recruitly 58
0.2 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycom minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Paycom | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 45 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 15 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 41 (F) | +9 | +9.3 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 32 | 5 | 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; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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