§ The result
1 point separates Sova Assessment and Knockri.
Sova Assessment (Assessment) edges Knockri (Video interview) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47. Sova Assessment leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Knockri leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Knockri 55, Sova Assessment 62) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is FRIA Support at 15% (Knockri 35, Sova Assessment 40), 31% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment builds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
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
Knockri is filed under Video interview AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Knockri | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | CA | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 21% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Knockri 35 · Sova Assessment 40
0.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Knockri 60 · Sova Assessment 55
0.6 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Knockri 35 · Sova Assessment 40
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Knockri 55 · Sova Assessment 62
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Knockri 35 · Sova Assessment 38
0.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Knockri 55 · Sova Assessment 52
0.4 weighted points to Knockri
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.5 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 -1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Knockri minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Knockri | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| 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% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 48 (F) | -1 | -1.4 |
§ 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 | Knockri | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 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% | 36 | 5 | 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 |
Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 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 Knockri and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 75 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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