Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Alva Labs vs HireVue
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
Concerning
Assessment
HireVue
Asynchronous video interviewing platform with optional AI-driven assessment scoring of candidate responses.
Substantial gaps
Video interview
The result
3 points separate Alva Labs and HireVue.
Alva Labs (Assessment) edges HireVue (Video interview) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 61 (D) to 58 (F). HireVue takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Alva Labs, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and HireVue holds it (Alva Labs 58, HireVue 80, 18% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage HireVue builds across the 1 criterion it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Alva Labs6
- HireVue1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency58 vs 80
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, HireVue under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Alva Labs | HireVue |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2004 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight35% of the movement so far
Alva Labs58HireVue804.0 weighted points to HireVue
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight59% of the movement so far
Alva Labs78HireVue652.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight76% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68HireVue551.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight85% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68HireVue551.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight93% of the movement so far
Alva Labs52HireVue450.8 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight97% of the movement so far
Alva Labs38HireVue350.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Alva Labs63HireVue600.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus HireVue, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | HireVue | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 65 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 80 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 61D | 58F | +3 | +3.3 |
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 | Alva Labs | HireVue | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HireVue has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs and HireVue sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 15 for HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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