§ The result
SHL leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SHL opens an 18-point lead on Pulsifi, 51 to 33, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. SHL leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pulsifi none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Pulsifi 55 to SHL 58. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pulsifi 30, SHL 60, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
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
Pulsifi and SHL are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 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
Pulsifi 30 · SHL 60
6.0 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · SHL 50
5.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · SHL 58
2.7 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · SHL 40
1.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · SHL 60
1.1 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pulsifi 55 · SHL 58
0.4 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -17.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 50 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 51 (F) | -18 | -17.8 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | 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 | — | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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