§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Saville Assessment on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Eightfold AI (Sourcing) opens a 16-point lead on Saville Assessment (Assessment), 64 (D) to 48 (F). Saville Assessment is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Eightfold AI takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Eightfold AI 45 to Saville Assessment 40. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Eightfold AI 85, Saville Assessment 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
Vendor profile
Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
§ The record
Eightfold AI is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Saville Assessment under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Saville Assessment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Eightfold AI | Saville Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2016 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Saville Assessment 42
7.7 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Saville Assessment 50
5.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Saville Assessment 38
1.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Saville Assessment 40
0.8 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Saville Assessment 55
0.8 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · Saville Assessment 55
0.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +16.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Saville Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Saville Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 50 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 42 | +43 | +7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 48 (F) | +16 | +16.3 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Saville Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI and Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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