§ The result
Saville Assessment leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Saville Assessment finishes 15 points clear of Emi under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 33 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Saville Assessment leads every one of the 7 criteria, Emi none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Emi 35 to Saville Assessment 38. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (Emi 18, Saville Assessment 42) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Emi 28, Saville Assessment 50), 29% of the weighted advantage Saville Assessment builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
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
Emi is filed under Screening AI, Saville Assessment under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Saville Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emi | Saville Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AR | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Saville Assessment 50
4.4 weighted points to Saville Assessment
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Saville Assessment 42
4.3 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Saville Assessment 40
2.3 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Saville Assessment 55
1.6 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Saville Assessment 55
1.3 weighted points to Saville Assessment
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Saville Assessment 60
1.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Saville Assessment 38
0.4 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Saville Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Saville Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 42 | -24 | -4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 48 (F) | -15 | -15.3 |
§ 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 | Emi | Saville Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 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 Emi and Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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