Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Jobma vs Sova Assessment
Jobma
AI video interviewing platform offering one-way (pre-recorded), live, and agentic AI interviews with automated transcription and AI scoring of candidate video, audio, and written responses as recruiter decision-support.
Substantial gaps
Video interview
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
1 point separates Jobma and Sova Assessment.
Jobma (Video interview) edges Sova Assessment (Assessment) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 49 to 48. Sova Assessment takes 1 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 4 for Jobma, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure, and 2 are level. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, FRIA Support, and Sova Assessment holds it (Jobma 35, Sova Assessment 40, 15% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment builds across the 1 criterion it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Jobma4
- Sova Assessment1
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- FRIA Support35 vs 40
- Heaviest weighted swing
- FRIA Support15% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Jobma is filed under Video interview AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Jobma | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
FRIA Support
15% weight27% of the movement so far
Jobma35Sova Assessment400.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight48% of the movement so far
Jobma56Sova Assessment520.6 weighted points to Jobma
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight70% of the movement so far
Jobma60Sova Assessment550.6 weighted points to Jobma
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight87% of the movement so far
Jobma44Sova Assessment400.5 weighted points to Jobma
- 5
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight100% of the movement so far
Jobma40Sova Assessment380.4 weighted points to Jobma
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobma minus Sova Assessment, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Jobma | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 49F | 48F | +1 | +1.3 |
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 | Jobma | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Jobma has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 4 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Jobma, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Jobma last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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