§ The result
Paylocity leads Toggl Hire by 6 points.
Paylocity scores 43 and Toggl Hire 37 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Paylocity leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Toggl Hire leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paylocity 44, Toggl Hire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% 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
Toggl Hire
Toggl Hire is a skills-first hiring platform (now being retired) that screens candidates with auto-graded skills tests, async video interviews and homework assignments, bundled with a lightweight ATS.
§ The record
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Toggl Hire under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paylocity | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | EE |
| Founded | 1997 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Toggl Hire 30
2.8 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Toggl Hire 20
2.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Toggl Hire 35
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Toggl Hire 50
0.6 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Toggl Hire 52
0.2 weighted points to Toggl Hire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Toggl Hire 55
0.1 weighted points to Toggl Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Toggl Hire.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Toggl Hire | 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 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 37 (F) | +6 | +6.2 |
§ 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 | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 10 | 4 | 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; Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next