The result

1 point separates HiringBranch and SHL.

Under rubric v1.0, HiringBranch and SHL finish 1 point apart, 52 to 51, as two Assessment entries. The 7 criteria split 3 to 2 in favour of HiringBranch, with 2 level: HiringBranch is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and SHL on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.

Criteria won

7 criteria

  • HiringBranch3
  • SHL2
  • Level2
Widest raw gap
Bias Audit Transparency60 vs 50
Heaviest weighted swing
Bias Audit Transparency18% weight

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The record

Categories, scope and company facts.

HiringBranch and SHL are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.

RecordHiringBranchSHL
Price tierEnterpriseEnterprise
HeadquartersCAGB
Founded20141977

What decides it

The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.

  1. Bias Audit Transparency

    18% weight45% of the movement so far

    HiringBranch60
    SHL50

    1.8 weighted points to HiringBranch

  2. FRIA Support

    15% weight63% of the movement so far

    HiringBranch35
    SHL30

    0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch

  3. Human Oversight Design

    12% weight81% of the movement so far

    HiringBranch52
    SHL58

    0.7 weighted points to SHL

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    15% weight92% of the movement so far

    HiringBranch55
    SHL58

    0.4 weighted points to SHL

  5. Customer Documentation

    8% weight100% of the movement so far

    HiringBranch64
    SHL60

    0.3 weighted points to HiringBranch

Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.7.

Category-by-category

Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.

Δ is HiringBranch minus SHL, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.

CategoryWeightHiringBranchSHLΔ rawΔ weighted
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%6060--
Bias Audit Transparency18%6050+10+1.8
FRIA Support15%3530+5+0.8
Data Governance Disclosure15%5558-3-0.4
Human Oversight Design12%5258-6-0.7
Post-Market Monitoring12%4040--
Customer Documentation8%6460+4+0.3
Total100%52F51F+1+1.7

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.

CriterionWeightHiringBranchSHL
CitedAbsencesAudit / hostingCitedAbsencesAudit / hosting
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%21Sources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Bias Audit Transparency18%21Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
FRIA Support15%11Sources on the vendor's own domain11Sources on the vendor's own domain
Data Governance Disclosure15%21Sources on the vendor's own domain30Sources on the vendor's own domain
Human Oversight Design12%11Sources on the vendor's own domain20Sources on the vendor's own domain
Post-Market Monitoring12%21Sources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Customer Documentation8%30Sources on the vendor's own domain30Sources on the vendor's own domain
All criteria100%136Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain154Sources on the vendor's own domain

HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.

Rubric
v1.0
HiringBranch last reviewed
July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
SHL last reviewed
June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team

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