§ The result
1 point separates SHL and Test Partnership.
Under rubric v1.0, SHL and Test Partnership finish 1 point apart, 51 to 50, as two Assessment entries. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of SHL, with 1 level: SHL is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Test Partnership on FRIA Support. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Test Partnership takes FRIA Support at 15%, SHL 30 to Test Partnership 36, 85% of the weighted advantage Test Partnership holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Post-Market Monitoring, SHL 40 to Test Partnership 33.
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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
SHL and Test Partnership are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SHL | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 1977 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 30% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · Test Partnership 36
0.9 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · Test Partnership 33
0.8 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · Test Partnership 57
0.6 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · Test Partnership 48
0.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SHL 60 · Test Partnership 62
0.2 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · Test Partnership 57
0.1 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | SHL | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 36 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 50 (F) | +1 | +0.9 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 6 | 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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