§ The result
Sapia.ai leads Vervoe on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Sapia.ai sits 10 points above Vervoe under rubric v1.0, 56 against 46, with both filed under Assessment. Sapia.ai leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Vervoe is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Sapia.ai leads is Human Oversight Design, Sapia.ai 62 to Vervoe 60. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sapia.ai 70, Vervoe 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 47% 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
Vervoe
AI-powered skills-assessment platform that grades and ranks candidates on performance in role-specific, task-based assessments.
§ The record
Sapia.ai and Vervoe 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 | Vervoe |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | AU |
| Founded | 2013 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sapia.ai 70 · Vervoe 45
5.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sapia.ai 50 · Vervoe 28
2.6 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sapia.ai 35 · Vervoe 25
1.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sapia.ai 62 · Vervoe 55
1.1 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sapia.ai 62 · Vervoe 58
0.3 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sapia.ai 62 · Vervoe 60
0.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sapia.ai minus Vervoe.
| Category | Weight | Sapia.ai | Vervoe | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 46 (F) | +10 | +10.8 |
§ 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 | Vervoe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Vervoe has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sapia.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Vervoe, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vervoe last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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