§ The result
Sova Assessment leads RecruitBot on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Sova Assessment sits 11 points above RecruitBot under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 37 — with Sova Assessment filed under Assessment and RecruitBot under Sourcing. Sova Assessment leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so RecruitBot is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Sova Assessment leads is Data Governance Disclosure, RecruitBot 48 to Sova Assessment 52. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (RecruitBot 33, Sova Assessment 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
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
RecruitBot is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Sova Assessment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | RecruitBot | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · Sova Assessment 55
4.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · Sova Assessment 38
2.9 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · Sova Assessment 40
1.9 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · Sova Assessment 52
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · Sova Assessment 55
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · Sova Assessment 62
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 55 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 38 | -16 | -2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 40 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 48 (F) | -11 | -11.0 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | 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% | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 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% | 25 | 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 |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 RecruitBot and Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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