§ The result
Sova Assessment leads HeroHunt.ai on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sova Assessment (Assessment) opens an 18-point lead on HeroHunt.ai (Sourcing), 48 to 30. HeroHunt.ai is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Sova Assessment takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Data Governance Disclosure, HeroHunt.ai 45 to Sova Assessment 52. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HeroHunt.ai 20, Sova Assessment 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
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
HeroHunt.ai is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Sova Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | NL | GB |
| Founded | 2021 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Sova Assessment 55
7.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Sova Assessment 38
5.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Sova Assessment 40
1.9 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Sova Assessment 40
1.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Sova Assessment 62
1.1 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Sova Assessment 52
1.1 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -17.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -17.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 38 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 40 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 48 (F) | -18 | -17.6 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | 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 | 1 | — | 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% | 5 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | 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 |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 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 HeroHunt.ai and Sova 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: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next