§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Recruit CRM by 8 points.
Sova Assessment scores 48 and Recruit CRM 40 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Recruit CRM takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 4 for Sova Assessment, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Recruit CRM 34, Sova Assessment 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 49% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
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
Recruit CRM is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Sova Assessment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruit CRM | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruit CRM 34 · Sova Assessment 55
4.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruit CRM 20 · Sova Assessment 38
3.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruit CRM 34 · Sova Assessment 40
0.9 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruit CRM 58 · Sova Assessment 55
0.4 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruit CRM 54 · Sova Assessment 52
0.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruit CRM 42 · Sova Assessment 40
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruit CRM 60 · Sova Assessment 62
0.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 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 -7.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruit CRM minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Recruit CRM | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 55 | -21 | -4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 40 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 48 (F) | -8 | -7.6 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 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% | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 5 | 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 |
Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 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 Recruit CRM and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next