§ The result
1 point separates Paylocity and Tengai.
Paylocity holds a 1-point edge over Tengai under rubric v1.0, 43 to 42, across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Paylocity leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Tengai leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paylocity 42, Tengai 33 — and at a 12% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Paylocity 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
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
§ The record
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paylocity | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 1997 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Tengai 33
1.1 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Tengai 58
1.0 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Tengai 50
0.6 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Tengai 28
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Tengai 55
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Tengai 45
0.2 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 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 +1.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 45 | -1 | -0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 33 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 42 (F) | +1 | +1.1 |
§ 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 | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | 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 | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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