§ The result
SHL leads Testlify by 6 points.
SHL finishes 6 points ahead of Testlify under rubric v1.0, 51 to 45, both scored as Assessment entries. SHL leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Testlify leads 2, including FRIA Support, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (SHL 50, Testlify 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 60% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
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
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
SHL and Testlify 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 | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 1977 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · Testlify 30
3.6 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · Testlify 52
1.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · Testlify 33
0.4 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · Testlify 55
0.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · Testlify 55
0.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · Testlify 42
0.2 weighted points to Testlify
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | SHL | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 45 (F) | +6 | +5.3 |
§ 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 | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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