Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs Sova Assessment
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
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
3 points separate Sova Assessment and hackajob.
Sova Assessment (Assessment) edges hackajob (Sourcing) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 45. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Sova Assessment, with 1 level: Sova Assessment is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and hackajob on Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (hackajob 20, Sova Assessment 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 67% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob2
- Sova Assessment4
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency20 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only Sova Assessment is in scope of
| Record | hackajob | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight48% of the movement so far
hackajob20Sova Assessment383.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight66% of the movement so far
hackajob32Sova Assessment401.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight81% of the movement so far
hackajob60Sova Assessment551.0 weighted points to hackajob
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight94% of the movement so far
hackajob58Sova Assessment520.9 weighted points to hackajob
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight98% of the movement so far
hackajob38Sova Assessment400.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob60Sova Assessment620.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.9.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Sova Assessment, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 48F | -3 | -2.9 |
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 | hackajob | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | 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% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 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 76 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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