§ The result
SHL leads Recruitly by 10 points.
SHL, filed under Assessment, comes out 10 points above Recruitly, filed under ATS-integrated: 51 against 41 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of SHL: SHL is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruitly on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruitly 15, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
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
Recruitly 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 | Recruitly | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AE | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · SHL 50
6.3 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · SHL 60
3.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · SHL 58
1.9 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · SHL 40
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · SHL 58
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · SHL 60
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 50 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 51 (F) | -10 | -9.8 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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