§ The result
Tezi leads Paycor by 18 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Tezi (Screening) opens an 18-point lead on Paycor (ATS-integrated), 58 to 40. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Tezi: Tezi is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Paycor on Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paycor 25, Tezi 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Tezi 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
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
§ The record
Paycor is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tezi 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 | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1990 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · Tezi 83
10.4 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycor 40 · Tezi 52
2.4 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycor 38 · Tezi 58
2.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · Tezi 38
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycor 55 · Tezi 63
1.0 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · Tezi 55
0.8 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · Tezi 50
0.4 weighted points to Paycor
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.0 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 -18.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 83 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 38 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 58 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 58 (F) | -18 | -18.2 |
§ 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 | Paycor | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 2 | 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 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 11 | 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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