§ The result
Sova Assessment leads eSkill by 7 points.
Inside the Assessment cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Sova Assessment on 48 and eSkill on 41, 7 points apart. eSkill takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Sova Assessment, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage Sova Assessment holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (eSkill 25, Sova Assessment 38, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 34% of the weighted points Sova Assessment gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
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
eSkill 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 | eSkill | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2003 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Sova Assessment 38
2.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · Sova Assessment 40
1.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Sova Assessment 55
1.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Sova Assessment 52
0.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Sova Assessment 40
0.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Sova Assessment 62
0.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Sova Assessment 55
0.2 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 52 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 40 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 48 (F) | -7 | -6.7 |
§ 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 | eSkill | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | 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 |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 eSkill and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next