§ The result
SHL leads TestDome on 6 of the 7 criteria.
SHL sits 14 points above TestDome under rubric v1.0, 51 against 37, with both filed under Assessment. TestDome is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: SHL takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, SHL 30 to TestDome 28. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SHL 50, TestDome 15 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 6 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
TestDome
TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
§ The record
SHL and TestDome 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 | TestDome |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | HR |
| Founded | 1977 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · TestDome 15
6.3 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · TestDome 40
4.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · TestDome 50
1.2 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · TestDome 30
1.2 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · TestDome 52
0.7 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · TestDome 28
0.3 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus TestDome.
| Category | Weight | SHL | TestDome | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 15 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 37 (F) | +14 | +13.7 |
§ 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 | SHL | TestDome | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; TestDome has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for TestDome, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestDome last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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