§ The result
4 points separate HiredScore and Saville Assessment.
HiredScore (Sourcing) edges Saville Assessment (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 52 to 48. HiredScore leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Saville Assessment leads 2, including FRIA Support, and 2 are level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HiredScore 65, Saville Assessment 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
Vendor profile
Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
§ The record
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Saville Assessment under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Saville Assessment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Saville Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Saville Assessment 50
3.0 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Saville Assessment 42
2.3 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Saville Assessment 40
1.5 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Saville Assessment 55
0.6 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Saville Assessment 38
0.4 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Saville Assessment.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Saville Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 50 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 48 (F) | +4 | +4.1 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Saville Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore and Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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