§ The result
SHL leads Darwinbox on 4 of the 7 criteria.
SHL scores 51 and Darwinbox 46 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. SHL leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Darwinbox is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 SHL leads is Human Oversight Design, Darwinbox 55 to SHL 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 28, SHL 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 77% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
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
Darwinbox 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 | Darwinbox | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · SHL 50
4.0 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · SHL 40
0.6 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · SHL 58
0.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · SHL 60
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -5.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 51 (F) | -5 | -5.2 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | 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% | 1 | 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 domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 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 domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next