Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Gloat vs Sova Assessment
Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered internal talent marketplace and "agentic HR" platform that matches an employer's existing employees to internal job openings, gigs, projects, mentorships, and learning based on inferred skills and career goals.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Sova Assessment takes the total, Gloat takes more of the criteria.
Sova Assessment (Assessment) edges Gloat (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47. Gloat leads more of the criteria than Sova Assessment — 3 to 2 — but FRIA Support, which Sova Assessment leads, carries 15% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Sova Assessment. One criterion, FRIA Support, is both the widest raw gap (Gloat 28, Sova Assessment 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Gloat3
- Sova Assessment2
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- FRIA Support28 vs 40
- Heaviest weighted swing
- FRIA Support15% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Gloat is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Gloat | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
FRIA Support
15% weight35% of the movement so far
Gloat28Sova Assessment401.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight62% of the movement so far
Gloat48Sova Assessment551.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight79% of the movement so far
Gloat58Sova Assessment520.9 weighted points to Gloat
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Gloat62Sova Assessment550.8 weighted points to Gloat
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Gloat42Sova Assessment400.2 weighted points to Gloat
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -1.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gloat minus Sova Assessment, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Gloat | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 47F | 48F | -1 | -1.2 |
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 | Gloat | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 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% | 3 | 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 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% | 21 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Gloat has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 8 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 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Gloat, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gloat last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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