§ The result
SHL leads Pillar on 6 of the 7 criteria.
SHL sits 11 points above Pillar under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 40 — with SHL filed under Assessment and Pillar under Screening. SHL leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Pillar is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 SHL leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Pillar 33 to SHL 40. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pillar 42, SHL 60, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
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
Pillar is filed under Screening AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · SHL 60
3.6 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · SHL 50
2.2 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · SHL 58
1.9 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · SHL 58
1.2 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · SHL 40
0.8 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · SHL 60
0.8 weighted points to SHL
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 -11 beside that -10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 51 (F) | -11 | -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 | Pillar | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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