Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
The Predictive Index vs Sova Assessment
The Predictive Index
The Predictive Index provides validated behavioral and cognitive psychometric assessments used to screen, hire, and develop employees and design teams, alongside AI-assisted talent-management software.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
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
The Predictive Index and Sova Assessment tie at 48.
The Predictive Index and Sova Assessment, both in the Assessment cohort, tie at 48 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. The Predictive Index leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Sova Assessment 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — The Predictive Index 45, Sova Assessment 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage The Predictive Index holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- The Predictive Index3
- Sova Assessment4
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency45 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
The Predictive Index and Sova Assessment are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | The Predictive Index | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1955 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight29% of the movement so far
The Predictive Index45Sova Assessment381.3 weighted points to The Predictive Index
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight52% of the movement so far
The Predictive Index50Sova Assessment551.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight69% of the movement so far
The Predictive Index35Sova Assessment400.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight80% of the movement so far
The Predictive Index55Sova Assessment520.4 weighted points to The Predictive Index
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight88% of the movement so far
The Predictive Index52Sova Assessment550.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight96% of the movement so far
The Predictive Index43Sova Assessment400.4 weighted points to The Predictive Index
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
The Predictive Index60Sova Assessment620.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is The Predictive Index minus Sova Assessment, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | The Predictive Index | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 40 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48F | 48F | - | -0.2 |
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 | The Predictive Index | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 18 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
The Predictive Index has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 6 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for The Predictive Index, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- The Predictive Index last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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