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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Paycom: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paycom/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paycom/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paycom.md",
  "title": "Paycom: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Paycom is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Feb. 12, 2026.",
  "period": "July 30, 2025 to Feb. 12, 2026",
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    "summary": "Paycom is \"a leading provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management software\" built on one database: payroll, applicant tracking, onboarding, background checks, E-Verify, time and talent. Its AI is IWant, a \"command-driven AI engine\" that answers questions about applicant and employee data by text or voice and points users to the task. Its applicant tracking page describes resume parsing, auto job posting and knockout messages, but does not claim AI screening or AI interviews.",
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    "text": "Paycom is \"a leading provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management software\" built on one database: payroll, applicant tracking, onboarding, background checks, E-Verify, time and talent. Its AI is IWant, a \"command-driven AI engine\" that answers questions about applicant and employee data by text or voice and points users to the task. Its applicant tracking page describes resume parsing, auto job posting and knockout messages, but does not claim AI screening or AI interviews.",
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    },
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/paycom/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-02-12",
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      "title": "Paycom publishes Forrester study on IWant",
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      "title": "Paycom launches IWant, a command-driven AI engine",
      "summary": "Paycom launched IWant, which it calls \"the industry's first command-driven AI engine\". Users type or speak a question and IWant answers from Paycom's single database or sends them to the right screen. CEO Chad Richison called it \"the biggest release since our founding in 1998\".",
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