§ The result
HiPeople leads SHL on 6 of the 7 criteria.
HiPeople sits 10 points above SHL under rubric v1.0, 61 (D) against 51 (F), with both filed under Assessment. HiPeople leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so SHL is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 HiPeople leads is Article 11 Technical Documentation, HiPeople 62 to SHL 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiPeople 84, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
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
HiPeople and SHL are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · SHL 50
6.1 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · SHL 40
2.4 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · SHL 58
0.5 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · SHL 60
0.5 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · SHL 60
0.4 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 50 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 51 (F) | +10 | +10.6 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 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 HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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