§ The result
SHL leads Wonderlic on all 7 criteria.
SHL scores 51 and Wonderlic 43 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. SHL leads every one of the 7 criteria, Wonderlic none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, SHL 50 to Wonderlic 48. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (SHL 58, Wonderlic 38, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 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
Wonderlic
Wonderlic Select (formerly WonScore) is a pre-employment assessment that combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation tests to score and rank candidates for job fit.
§ The record
SHL and Wonderlic 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 | Wonderlic |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 1977 | 1937 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · Wonderlic 38
3.0 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · Wonderlic 52
1.6 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · Wonderlic 33
0.8 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · Wonderlic 25
0.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · Wonderlic 52
0.7 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SHL 60 · Wonderlic 55
0.4 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · Wonderlic 48
0.4 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus Wonderlic.
| Category | Weight | SHL | Wonderlic | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 38 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 43 (F) | +8 | +7.7 |
§ 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 | Wonderlic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 6 | 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; Wonderlic has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 15 for Wonderlic, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wonderlic last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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