§ The result
Saville Assessment leads Personio by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Saville Assessment, filed under Assessment, finishes on 48 and Personio, filed under ATS-integrated, on 40, 8 points apart. Saville Assessment leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Personio leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. The advantage Saville Assessment holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Personio 25, Saville Assessment 42, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Saville Assessment gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
Vendor profile
Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
§ The record
Personio is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Saville 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 Saville Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Personio | Saville Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Personio 25 · Saville Assessment 42
3.1 weighted points to Saville Assessment
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Personio 40 · Saville Assessment 50
2.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Personio 30 · Saville Assessment 40
1.5 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Personio 48 · Saville Assessment 38
1.2 weighted points to Personio
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Personio 48 · Saville Assessment 55
0.8 weighted points to Saville Assessment
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Personio 50 · Saville Assessment 60
0.8 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Personio 52 · Saville Assessment 55
0.4 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Personio minus Saville Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Personio | Saville Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 48 (F) | -8 | -7.5 |
§ 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 | Personio | Saville Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Personio and Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains, and 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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