§ The result
1 point separates Paylocity and Recruitee.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Paylocity edges Recruitee by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 43 to 42. Paylocity leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruitee leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Human Oversight Design is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Recruitee — Paylocity 50, Recruitee 58, on a 12% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage Recruitee holds across the 1 criterion 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
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
§ The record
Paylocity and Recruitee 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 | Recruitee |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 1997 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Recruitee 58
1.0 weighted points to Recruitee
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Recruitee 30
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Recruitee 27
0.4 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Recruitee 42
0.4 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Recruitee 52
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Recruitee 40
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Recruitee.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Recruitee | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 42 (F) | +1 | +1.0 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 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; Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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