§ The result
SHL leads Cappfinity on all 7 criteria.
Both filed under Assessment, SHL and Cappfinity come out 51 and 40 under rubric v1.0, 11 points in favour of SHL. SHL takes all 7 criteria and Cappfinity none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Cappfinity 28 to SHL 30. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cappfinity 36, SHL 60 — and at a 20% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
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
Cappfinity and SHL are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2005 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · SHL 60
4.8 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · SHL 50
4.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · SHL 58
0.9 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · SHL 58
0.7 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · SHL 60
0.3 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · SHL 30
0.3 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 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 -11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 60 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 51 (F) | -11 | -11.2 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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