§ The result
Paylocity leads Zappyhire on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Paylocity scores 43 and Zappyhire 34 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Paylocity leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Zappyhire is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Paylocity leads is Bias Audit Transparency, Paylocity 33 to Zappyhire 28. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Paylocity 44, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 6 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 1997 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Zappyhire 30
2.8 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Zappyhire 42
1.8 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Zappyhire 28
1.7 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Zappyhire 28
0.9 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 30 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 28 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 34 (F) | +9 | +9.0 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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