§ The result
4 points separate HiredScore and Sova Assessment.
HiredScore (Sourcing) edges Sova Assessment (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 52 to 48. HiredScore leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Sova Assessment leads 3, including FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiredScore 55, Sova Assessment 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sova 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 Sova Assessment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Sova Assessment 38
3.1 weighted points to HiredScore
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Sova Assessment 55
2.0 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Sova Assessment 40
1.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Sova Assessment 55
0.6 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Sova Assessment 40
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Sova Assessment 52
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Sova Assessment 62
0.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 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 +3.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 55 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 48 (F) | +4 | +3.9 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 28 | 8 | 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; 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 HiredScore and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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