§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Cappfinity on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Inside the Assessment cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Sova Assessment on 48 and Cappfinity on 40, 8 points apart. Sova Assessment leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Cappfinity is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Sova Assessment leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Cappfinity 38 to Sova Assessment 40. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cappfinity 36, Sova Assessment 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
Vendor profile
Sova Assessment
Sova Assessment is a UK-based enterprise talent assessment platform combining personality questionnaires, cognitive and ability tests, situational judgement, video interviews, virtual assessment centres and AI-led role simulations into a single occupational-psychology-validated candidate scoring workflow.
§ The record
Cappfinity and Sova Assessment are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2005 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Sova Assessment 55
3.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Sova Assessment 38
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Sova Assessment 40
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Sova Assessment 62
0.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Sova Assessment 55
0.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · Sova Assessment 40
0.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 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 -8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 55 | -19 | -3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 48 (F) | -8 | -8.5 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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