§ The result
SHL leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
SHL sits 13 points above Brazen under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 38 — with SHL filed under Assessment and Brazen under Screening. SHL leads every one of the 7 criteria, Brazen none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Brazen 38 to SHL 40. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brazen 40, SHL 60, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2007 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · SHL 60
4.0 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · SHL 50
3.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · SHL 58
1.9 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · SHL 58
1.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · SHL 60
0.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · SHL 40
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 51 (F) | -13 | -12.4 |
§ 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 | Brazen | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 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 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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