§ The result
Plum leads Paylocity by 11 points.
Plum sits 11 points above Paylocity under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 43 — with Plum filed under Assessment and Paylocity under ATS-integrated. Plum leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Paylocity leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paylocity 33, Plum 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 72% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 4 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
Plum
Plum is a pre-employment talent assessment platform that uses a Five-Factor (Big Five) psychometric Discovery Survey and a Talent Match model to score and rank candidates on behavioral "durable skills" for role fit, hiring, and development.
§ The record
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Plum under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paylocity | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 1997 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Plum 83
9.0 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Plum 58
2.8 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Plum 36
0.7 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Plum 63
0.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Plum 28
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Plum 52
0.2 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 58 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 83 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 54 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 36 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 54 (F) | -11 | -11.4 |
§ 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 | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Plum has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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