§ The result
4 points separate Sova Assessment and JazzHR.
Sova Assessment (Assessment) edges JazzHR (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 44. Sova Assessment leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while JazzHR leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Sova Assessment takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (JazzHR 45, Sova Assessment 55), which is 41% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, FRIA Support, JazzHR 28 to Sova Assessment 40.
Vendor profile
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
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
JazzHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Sova Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | JazzHR | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2009 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JazzHR 45 · Sova Assessment 55
2.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JazzHR 28 · Sova Assessment 40
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JazzHR 35 · Sova Assessment 38
0.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JazzHR 56 · Sova Assessment 62
0.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JazzHR 58 · Sova Assessment 55
0.4 weighted points to JazzHR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JazzHR 42 · Sova Assessment 40
0.2 weighted points to JazzHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 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 -4.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JazzHR minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | JazzHR | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 48 (F) | -4 | -4.2 |
§ 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 | JazzHR | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 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 |
JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 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 JazzHR and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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