§ The result
SHL leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SHL (Assessment) opens a 17-point lead on HireQuotient (Sourcing), 51 to 34. Of the 7 criteria HireQuotient wins none, and the narrowest lead SHL holds is on Human Oversight Design, HireQuotient 57 to SHL 58. The advantage SHL holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireQuotient 18, SHL 50, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 34% of the weighted points SHL gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2021 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · SHL 50
5.8 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · SHL 60
5.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · SHL 58
2.7 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · SHL 30
1.2 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · SHL 40
1.2 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · SHL 60
0.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 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 -16.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 50 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 51 (F) | -17 | -16.8 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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