§ The result
Dayforce leads Sova Assessment on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Dayforce scores 57 and Sova Assessment 48 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Sova Assessment is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Dayforce leads is Bias Audit Transparency, Dayforce 42 to Sova Assessment 38. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 74, Sova Assessment 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
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
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Sova Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dayforce | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1992 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Sova Assessment 55
3.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Sova Assessment 52
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Sova Assessment 55
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Sova Assessment 40
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Sova Assessment 38
0.7 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Sova Assessment 62
0.6 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 55 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 52 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 62 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 48 (F) | +9 | +9.2 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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