§ The result
SHL leads Talkpush by 5 points.
SHL scores 51 and Talkpush 46 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. SHL leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Talkpush leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (SHL 58, Talkpush 44, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
SHL is filed under Assessment AI, Talkpush under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SHL | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | HK |
| Founded | 1977 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · Talkpush 44
2.1 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · Talkpush 52
1.6 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · Talkpush 42
1.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · Talkpush 46
0.7 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · Talkpush 27
0.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · Talkpush 56
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 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 +5.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | SHL | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 44 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 46 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 46 (F) | +5 | +5.1 |
§ 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 | SHL | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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