§ The result
HeyMilo leads Sova Assessment on all 7 criteria.
HeyMilo sits 13 points above Sova Assessment under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 48 (F) — with HeyMilo filed under Screening and Sova Assessment under Assessment. HeyMilo leads every one of the 7 criteria, Sova Assessment none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, HeyMilo 42 to Sova Assessment 40. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HeyMilo 83, Sova Assessment 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage HeyMilo holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HeyMilo
HeyMilo is an AI recruiter for high-volume hiring whose voice and video AI agent conducts and scores async and live conversational screening interviews against recruiter-defined rubrics and syncs results to the customer's ATS.
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
HeyMilo is filed under Screening AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HeyMilo | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeyMilo 83 · Sova Assessment 38
8.1 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeyMilo 62 · Sova Assessment 52
1.5 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeyMilo 64 · Sova Assessment 55
1.1 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeyMilo 46 · Sova Assessment 40
0.7 weighted points to HeyMilo
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeyMilo 58 · Sova Assessment 55
0.6 weighted points to HeyMilo
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeyMilo 66 · Sova Assessment 62
0.3 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeyMilo 42 · Sova Assessment 40
0.3 weighted points to HeyMilo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeyMilo minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | HeyMilo | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 38 | +45 | +8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 48 (F) | +13 | +12.6 |
§ 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 | HeyMilo | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HeyMilo has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 3 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 HeyMilo and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for HeyMilo, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeyMilo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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