§ The result
SHL leads Cegid by 6 points.
SHL scores 51 and Cegid 45 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of SHL, with 1 level: SHL is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Cegid on FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cegid 30, SHL 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cegid
Cegid's HR suite offers two recruiting lines: Cegid HR Talent Acquisition (ex-DigitalRecruiters), an ATS/CRM with CV parsing, scorecards, automated scoring and an AI conversational agent that pre-qualifies candidates on career sites and WhatsApp, and Cegid Talentsoft (now sold as Cegid HR Suite) recruiting, whose 'Recruiting Match' matches positions to candidates algorithmically.
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
Cegid is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only SHL is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cegid | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | FR | GB |
| Founded | 1983 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cegid 30 · SHL 50
3.6 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cegid 50 · SHL 60
2.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cegid 55 · SHL 58
0.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cegid 55 · SHL 58
0.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cegid 32 · SHL 30
0.3 weighted points to Cegid
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cegid 62 · SHL 60
0.2 weighted points to Cegid
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cegid minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Cegid | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 51 (F) | -6 | -6.0 |
§ 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 | Cegid | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cegid has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for Cegid, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cegid last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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