§ The result
Rippling leads SHL by 5 points.
Rippling scores 56 and SHL 51 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Rippling leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while SHL leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: FRIA Support (Rippling 45, SHL 30) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Rippling 73, SHL 60), the second being 36% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
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
Rippling 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 | Rippling | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2016 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · SHL 60
2.6 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · SHL 30
2.3 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · SHL 50
1.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · SHL 58
0.9 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · SHL 40
0.8 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · SHL 60
0.3 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · SHL 58
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 60 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 51 (F) | +5 | +5.7 |
§ 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 | Rippling | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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