§ The result
4 points separate Classet and SHL.
Classet holds a 4-point edge over SHL under rubric v1.0, 55 to 51, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. SHL takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Classet, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Classet 76, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage Classet holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Classet
Classet's AI voice recruiter, Joy, phones hourly and frontline applicants within about a minute of applying, runs employer-scripted screening interviews with binary knockout questions, and sends recruiters recordings, transcripts, summaries and a qualified/unqualified outcome, either in Classet's lightweight ATS or in 100+ connected ATSs.
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
Classet is filed under Screening AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Classet | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2021 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Classet 76 · SHL 50
4.7 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Classet 46 · SHL 60
2.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Classet 58 · SHL 40
2.2 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Classet 33 · SHL 30
0.4 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Classet 55 · SHL 58
0.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Classet 62 · SHL 60
0.2 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Classet 57 · SHL 58
0.1 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Classet minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Classet | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 76 | 50 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 51 (F) | +4 | +4.1 |
§ 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 | Classet | 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 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 Classet sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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