§ The result
Sapia.ai leads Saville Assessment by 8 points.
Sapia.ai finishes 8 points ahead of Saville Assessment under rubric v1.0, 56 to 48, both scored as Assessment entries. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Sapia.ai: Sapia.ai is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Saville Assessment on FRIA Support. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sapia.ai 70, Saville Assessment 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Sapia.ai holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
Vendor profile
Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
§ The record
Sapia.ai and Saville Assessment are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sapia.ai | Saville Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2013 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sapia.ai 70 · Saville Assessment 50
4.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sapia.ai 52 · Saville Assessment 42
1.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sapia.ai 50 · Saville Assessment 38
1.4 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sapia.ai 62 · Saville Assessment 55
1.1 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sapia.ai 62 · Saville Assessment 55
0.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sapia.ai 35 · Saville Assessment 40
0.8 weighted points to Saville Assessment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sapia.ai 62 · Saville Assessment 60
0.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.0 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 +8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sapia.ai minus Saville Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Sapia.ai | Saville Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 50 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 48 (F) | +8 | +8.5 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | Saville Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sapia.ai and Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next