§ The result
Beamery leads SHL by 10 points.
Beamery sits 10 points above SHL under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 51 (F) — with Beamery filed under Sourcing and SHL under Assessment. Beamery leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while SHL leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Beamery 85, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage Beamery holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Beamery
Talent CRM and sourcing platform that maintains a long-lived candidate pipeline, with AI-driven matching and skills inference.
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
Beamery is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only SHL is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Beamery | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2013 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Beamery 85 · SHL 50
6.3 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Beamery 60 · SHL 40
2.4 weighted points to Beamery
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Beamery 70 · SHL 60
2.0 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Beamery 55 · SHL 58
0.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Beamery 60 · SHL 58
0.3 weighted points to Beamery
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Beamery minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Beamery | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 50 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 51 (F) | +10 | +10.6 |
§ 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 | Beamery | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Beamery has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Beamery sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Beamery, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Beamery last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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