§ The result
4 points separate TestGorilla and Paylocity.
TestGorilla (Assessment) edges Paylocity (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 47 to 43. TestGorilla leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Paylocity leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. TestGorilla takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Paylocity 44, TestGorilla 52), which is 40% of the weighted advantage TestGorilla holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, Paylocity 50 to TestGorilla 60.
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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, TestGorilla 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 | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 1997 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · TestGorilla 52
1.6 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · TestGorilla 60
1.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · TestGorilla 38
0.9 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · TestGorilla 38
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · TestGorilla 56
0.3 weighted points to TestGorilla
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 52 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 38 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 47 (F) | -4 | -3.5 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 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; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
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 TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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