§ The result
Pinpoint leads Paylocity on all 7 criteria.
Pinpoint sits 14 points above Paylocity under rubric v1.0, 57 against 43, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Pinpoint leads every one of the 7 criteria, Paylocity none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Paylocity 30 to Pinpoint 38. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paylocity 44, Pinpoint 72 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
Vendor profile
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
§ The record
Paylocity and Pinpoint 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. Only Paylocity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paylocity | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | JE |
| Founded | 1997 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Pinpoint 72
5.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Pinpoint 68
2.1 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Pinpoint 64
1.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Pinpoint 42
1.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Pinpoint 38
1.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Pinpoint 52
1.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Pinpoint 66
0.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 72 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 42 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 68 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 57 (F) | -14 | -14.0 |
§ 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 | Paylocity | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next