§ The result
4 points separate SHL and TestGorilla.
Within the Assessment cohort, SHL edges TestGorilla by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 51 to 47. SHL leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while TestGorilla leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SHL 50, TestGorilla 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% 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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
SHL and TestGorilla are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SHL | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 1977 | 2019 |
§ 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 · TestGorilla 38
2.2 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · TestGorilla 52
1.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · TestGorilla 56
0.3 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · TestGorilla 60
0.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · TestGorilla 38
0.2 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SHL 60 · TestGorilla 58
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | SHL | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 47 (F) | +4 | +4.2 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources 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 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 5 | 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; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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