§ The result
SHL leads UKG by 7 points.
SHL scores 51 and UKG 44 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. SHL leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while UKG leads 1, including FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SHL 50, UKG 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
SHL is filed under Assessment AI, UKG under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only SHL is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SHL | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 1977 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · UKG 30
3.6 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · UKG 48
2.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · UKG 35
0.8 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · UKG 52
0.7 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SHL 60 · UKG 55
0.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · UKG 56
0.3 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · UKG 38
0.2 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | SHL | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 48 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 44 (F) | +7 | +6.9 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 8 | 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; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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