§ The result
Saville Assessment leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Saville Assessment sits 14 points above Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 34 — with Saville Assessment filed under Assessment and Zappyhire under Screening. Saville Assessment takes all 7 criteria and Zappyhire none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Saville Assessment 55 to Zappyhire 50. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Saville Assessment 50, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage Saville Assessment holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Saville Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2004 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Saville Assessment 50 · Zappyhire 30
4.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Saville Assessment 42 · Zappyhire 28
2.5 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Saville Assessment 40 · Zappyhire 25
2.3 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Saville Assessment 55 · Zappyhire 42
1.9 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Saville Assessment 38 · Zappyhire 28
1.2 weighted points to Saville Assessment
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Saville Assessment 60 · Zappyhire 45
1.2 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Saville Assessment 55 · Zappyhire 50
0.6 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Saville Assessment minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Saville Assessment | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 34 (F) | +14 | +13.7 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Saville Assessment and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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