§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Pulsifi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Sova Assessment finishes 15 points clear of Pulsifi inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 48 against 33. Pulsifi is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Sova Assessment takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Data Governance Disclosure, Pulsifi 40 to Sova Assessment 52. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pulsifi 30, Sova Assessment 55, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
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
Pulsifi and Sova Assessment are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 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
Pulsifi 30 · Sova Assessment 55
5.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · Sova Assessment 38
3.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · Sova Assessment 40
2.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · Sova Assessment 52
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · Sova Assessment 40
1.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · Sova Assessment 62
1.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -15.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 48 (F) | -15 | -15.0 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | 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% | 3 | 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% | 6 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | 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% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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