§ The result
Tenzo AI leads Paylocity on all 7 criteria.
Tenzo AI sits 13 points above Paylocity under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 43 — with Tenzo AI filed under Screening and Paylocity under ATS-integrated. Tenzo AI takes all 7 criteria and Paylocity none of them; the nearest contest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Paylocity 44 to Tenzo AI 45. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Paylocity 33, Tenzo AI 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage Tenzo AI holds across the 7 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
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tenzo AI under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paylocity | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1997 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Tenzo AI 83
9.0 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Tenzo AI 40
1.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Tenzo AI 60
1.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Tenzo AI 45
0.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Tenzo AI 62
0.3 weighted points to Tenzo AI
20% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Tenzo AI 45
0.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Tenzo AI 55
0.1 weighted points to Tenzo AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 45 | -1 | -0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 83 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 56 (F) | -13 | -12.7 |
§ 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 | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next