§ The result
SHL leads Recruiterflow on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SHL (Assessment) opens a 15-point lead on Recruiterflow (ATS-integrated), 51 to 36. Recruiterflow is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: SHL takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is Customer Documentation, Recruiterflow 56 to SHL 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruiterflow 18, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies and executive search firms. Its AIRA AI layer ranks candidates already in a firm's database against each job with an explainable 0–100 Criteria Score (AIRA Matchmaker, shown as the 'AI Matches' card), and adds natural-language candidate search, external profile sourcing and an AI call notetaker that fills in interview scorecards.
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
Recruiterflow is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only SHL is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruiterflow | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruiterflow 18 · SHL 50
5.8 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruiterflow 33 · SHL 60
5.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruiterflow 44 · SHL 58
2.1 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruiterflow 33 · SHL 40
0.8 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruiterflow 56 · SHL 60
0.3 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruiterflow minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Recruiterflow | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 60 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 50 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 58 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 51 (F) | -15 | -14.4 |
§ 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 | Recruiterflow | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruiterflow 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Recruiterflow, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruiterflow last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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