§ The result
SHL leads Adaface on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Assessment entries SHL and Adaface at 51 and 39, a gap of 12 points. Adaface is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: SHL takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Post-Market Monitoring, Adaface 38 to SHL 40. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Adaface 22, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Adaface
Adaface runs chatbot-led 'conversational' skills tests for 500+ roles that score candidates automatically as pass, borderline pass or fail on benchmarked scorecards, backed by webcam, screen and IP proctoring and an AI résumé parser.
Vendor profile
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
§ The record
Adaface and SHL are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · SHL 50
5.0 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · SHL 60
4.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · SHL 58
1.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · SHL 58
0.9 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · SHL 40
0.2 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Adaface 58 · SHL 60
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 51 (F) | -12 | -11.7 |
§ 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 | Adaface | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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