§ The result
SHL leads Recruitee on 5 of the 7 criteria.
SHL scores 51 and Recruitee 42 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. SHL leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Recruitee is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 SHL leads is Customer Documentation, Recruitee 58 to SHL 60. SHL takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Recruitee 42, SHL 60), which is 41% of the weighted advantage SHL holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, Recruitee 30 to SHL 50.
Vendor profile
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
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
Recruitee is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only SHL is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruitee | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitee 42 · SHL 60
3.6 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitee 30 · SHL 50
3.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitee 52 · SHL 58
0.9 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitee 27 · SHL 30
0.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitee 58 · SHL 60
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -8.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitee minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Recruitee | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 51 (F) | -9 | -8.7 |
§ 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.
| Criterion | Weight | Recruitee | 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% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 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 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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