§ The result
SHL leads RecruitBot on 6 of the 7 criteria.
SHL, filed under Assessment, comes out 14 points above RecruitBot, filed under Sourcing: 51 against 37 under rubric v1.0. RecruitBot is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: SHL takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, RecruitBot 27 to SHL 30. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (RecruitBot 22, SHL 50) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (RecruitBot 33, SHL 60), the second being 39% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
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
RecruitBot is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only SHL is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | RecruitBot | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · SHL 60
5.4 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · SHL 50
5.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · SHL 58
1.5 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · SHL 58
1.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · SHL 30
0.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · SHL 60
0.4 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -13.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 60 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 51 (F) | -14 | -13.8 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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; some documentation or audit rows for RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next