§ The result
Sova Assessment leads HireQuotient by 14 points.
Sova Assessment sits 14 points above HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 34 — with Sova Assessment filed under Assessment and HireQuotient under Sourcing. HireQuotient takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Sova Assessment, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HireQuotient 35, Sova Assessment 55, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2021 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Sova Assessment 55
4.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Sova Assessment 38
3.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Sova Assessment 40
2.7 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Sova Assessment 52
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Sova Assessment 40
1.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Sova Assessment 62
1.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Sova Assessment 55
0.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 55 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 38 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 48 (F) | -14 | -14.0 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next