§ The result
Sova Assessment leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
Sova Assessment sits 12 points above micro1 under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 36 — with Sova Assessment filed under Assessment and micro1 under Screening. Sova Assessment is ahead of micro1 on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Article 11 Technical Documentation at micro1 50 to Sova Assessment 55. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (micro1 20, Sova Assessment 38, 18% weight), is only 27% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
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
micro1 is filed under Screening AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | micro1 | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2022 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · Sova Assessment 38
3.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · Sova Assessment 40
2.7 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · Sova Assessment 40
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · Sova Assessment 62
1.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · Sova Assessment 52
1.1 weighted points to Sova Assessment
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · Sova Assessment 55
1.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · Sova Assessment 55
0.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is micro1 minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 48 (F) | -12 | -12.0 |
§ 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 | micro1 | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 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% | 7 | 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% | 2 | 2 | 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 domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 8 | 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 |
micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 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 micro1 and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next