§ The result
TestGorilla leads Paycor on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, TestGorilla, filed under Assessment, finishes on 47 and Paycor, filed under ATS-integrated, on 40, 7 points apart. Paycor is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: TestGorilla takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Paycor 27 to TestGorilla 30. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Paycor 25, TestGorilla 38) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Paycor 40, TestGorilla 52), the second being 35% of the weighted advantage TestGorilla holds across the 6 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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
Paycor is filed under ATS-integrated AI, TestGorilla 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 TestGorilla is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paycor | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 1990 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycor 40 · TestGorilla 52
2.4 weighted points to TestGorilla
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · TestGorilla 38
2.3 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · TestGorilla 56
0.9 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycor 55 · TestGorilla 60
0.6 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · TestGorilla 30
0.4 weighted points to TestGorilla
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · TestGorilla 58
0.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 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 -6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 47 (F) | -7 | -6.9 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 14 | 5 | Sources 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; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor and TestGorilla 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 TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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