Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
BrightHire vs SHL
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
Substantial gaps
Screening
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
BrightHire and SHL tie at 51.
BrightHire (Screening) and SHL (Assessment) tie at 51 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. BrightHire leads 5 of the 7 criteria and SHL 1, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (BrightHire 52, SHL 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 100% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 1 criterion it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- BrightHire5
- SHL1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation52 vs 60
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | BrightHire | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 1977 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight47% of the movement so far
BrightHire52SHL601.6 weighted points to SHL
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight73% of the movement so far
BrightHire36SHL300.9 weighted points to BrightHire
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight81% of the movement so far
BrightHire60SHL580.3 weighted points to BrightHire
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight88% of the movement so far
BrightHire60SHL580.2 weighted points to BrightHire
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight95% of the movement so far
BrightHire42SHL400.2 weighted points to BrightHire
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
BrightHire62SHL600.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus SHL, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51F | 51F | - | +0.2 |
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 | BrightHire | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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