§ The result
Saville Assessment takes the total, Talkpush takes more of the criteria.
Saville Assessment (Assessment) edges Talkpush (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46. Talkpush leads more of the criteria than Saville Assessment — 3 to 2 — but FRIA Support, which Saville Assessment leads, carries 15% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Saville Assessment. One criterion, FRIA Support, is both the widest raw gap (Saville Assessment 40, Talkpush 27) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Saville Assessment holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Saville Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Talkpush under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Saville Assessment | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | HK |
| Founded | 2004 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 38% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Saville Assessment 40 · Talkpush 27
1.9 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Saville Assessment 55 · Talkpush 44
1.6 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Saville Assessment 38 · Talkpush 46
1.0 weighted points to Talkpush
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Saville Assessment 50 · Talkpush 52
0.4 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Saville Assessment 55 · Talkpush 56
0.1 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +2.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Saville Assessment minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Saville Assessment | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 27 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 46 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 46 (F) | +2 | +2.1 |
§ 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 | Saville Assessment | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Saville Assessment and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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