§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Paylocity by 5 points.
Sova Assessment scores 48 and Paylocity 43 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Sova Assessment leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Paylocity leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paylocity 44, Sova Assessment 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
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
Paylocity is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paylocity | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1997 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paylocity 44 · Sova Assessment 55
2.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paylocity 30 · Sova Assessment 40
1.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paylocity 33 · Sova Assessment 38
0.9 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paylocity 50 · Sova Assessment 55
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paylocity 58 · Sova Assessment 62
0.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paylocity 54 · Sova Assessment 52
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paylocity 42 · Sova Assessment 40
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paylocity minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Paylocity | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 38 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 48 (F) | -5 | -5.0 |
§ 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 | Paylocity | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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% | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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