§ The result
4 points separate Sova Assessment and Prevue HR.
Within the Assessment cohort, Sova Assessment edges Prevue HR by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 44. Prevue HR takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for Sova Assessment, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Sova Assessment takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Prevue HR 45, Sova Assessment 55), which is 40% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, FRIA Support, Prevue HR 27 to Sova Assessment 40.
Vendor profile
Prevue HR
Prevue HR's psychometric platform tests candidates' aptitude, personality and motivations and compares the results with a custom role benchmark to produce a percentage Job Suitability score and Job-Fit report, alongside an optional applicant tracking system (APS Pro).
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
Prevue HR and Sova Assessment are both filed under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Prevue HR | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | CA | GB |
| Founded | 1994 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Prevue HR 45 · Sova Assessment 55
2.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Prevue HR 27 · Sova Assessment 40
1.9 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Prevue HR 44 · Sova Assessment 38
1.1 weighted points to Prevue HR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Prevue HR 48 · Sova Assessment 52
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Prevue HR 58 · Sova Assessment 62
0.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Prevue HR 54 · Sova Assessment 55
0.1 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.9 — 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 -4 beside that -3.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Prevue HR minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Prevue HR | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 38 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 40 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 48 (F) | -4 | -3.9 |
§ 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 | Prevue HR | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | 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 |
Prevue HR has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 Prevue HR and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Prevue HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Prevue HR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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