§ The result
SHL leads Willo by 10 points.
SHL sits 10 points above Willo under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 41 — with SHL filed under Assessment and Willo under Video interview. SHL leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Willo leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SHL 60, Willo 38 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% 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
Willo
Willo is a browser-based asynchronous (one-way) video interview platform that lets employers collect recorded video, audio, multiple-choice and written candidate responses, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize, rank candidates against employer-defined "Blueprint" criteria, and flag scripted or AI-generated answers.
§ The record
SHL is filed under Assessment AI, Willo under Video interview 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 | Willo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 1977 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · Willo 38
4.4 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · Willo 30
3.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · Willo 25
0.8 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · Willo 53
0.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · Willo 62
0.5 weighted points to Willo
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · Willo 36
0.5 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SHL 60 · Willo 54
0.5 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus Willo.
| Category | Weight | SHL | Willo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 38 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 53 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 36 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 41 (F) | +10 | +10.0 |
§ 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 | Willo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 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 | 9 | 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; Willo has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 Willo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Willo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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