§ The result
Paycor leads Pulsifi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Paycor, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 40 and Pulsifi, filed under Assessment, on 33, 7 points apart. Pulsifi is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Paycor takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Paycor 27 to Pulsifi 25. The advantage Paycor holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Paycor 40, Pulsifi 30, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 30% of the weighted points Paycor gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
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.
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
Paycor 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 | Paycor | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 1990 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycor 40 · Pulsifi 30
2.0 weighted points to Paycor
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · Pulsifi 40
1.5 weighted points to Paycor
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycor 38 · Pulsifi 28
1.2 weighted points to Paycor
18% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · Pulsifi 20
0.9 weighted points to Paycor
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · Pulsifi 46
0.7 weighted points to Paycor
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · Pulsifi 25
0.3 weighted points to Paycor
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 25 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 46 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 33 (F) | +7 | +6.6 |
§ 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 | Paycor | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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