§ The result
Sense leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sense (Screening) opens an 18-point lead on Paycor (ATS-integrated), 58 to 40. Sense takes all 7 criteria and Paycor none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Paycor 55 to Sense 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paycor 25, Sense 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Paycor is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sense under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Paycor | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1990 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · Sense 72
8.5 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycor 40 · Sense 60
4.0 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycor 38 · Sense 52
1.7 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · Sense 38
1.6 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · Sense 58
1.2 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycor 55 · Sense 64
1.1 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · Sense 62
0.6 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 72 | -47 | -8.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 38 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 58 (F) | -18 | -18.6 |
§ 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 | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor and Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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