§ The result
4 points separate SHL and Knockri.
SHL holds a 4-point edge over Knockri under rubric v1.0, 51 to 47, across the Assessment and Video interview cohorts. Knockri takes 2 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 5 for SHL, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Knockri 35, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
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
Knockri is filed under Video interview AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Knockri | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Knockri 35 · SHL 50
2.7 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Knockri 55 · SHL 60
1.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Knockri 35 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Knockri 35 · SHL 40
0.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Knockri 55 · SHL 58
0.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Knockri 55 · SHL 60
0.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Knockri 60 · SHL 58
0.2 weighted points to Knockri
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 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 -4.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Knockri minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Knockri | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 51 (F) | -4 | -4.2 |
§ 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 | Knockri | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 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 Knockri sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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