§ The result
Paylocity leads Pulsifi by 10 points.
Paylocity, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 10 points above Pulsifi, filed under Assessment: 43 against 33 under rubric v1.0. Paylocity leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Pulsifi leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. The advantage Paylocity holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Paylocity 44, Pulsifi 30, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 26% of the weighted points Paylocity gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paylocity | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 1997 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Pulsifi 30
2.8 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Pulsifi 20
2.3 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Pulsifi 40
2.1 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Pulsifi 28
1.7 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Pulsifi 46
1.0 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Pulsifi 25
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Pulsifi 55
0.6 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 30 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 20 | +13 | +2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 46 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 33 (F) | +10 | +10.0 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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