§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Talview on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Sova Assessment scores 48 and Talview 42 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and Video interview cohorts. Sova Assessment leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Talview is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Sova Assessment leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Sova Assessment 52 to Talview 48. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sova Assessment 40, Talview 25 — and at a 15% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
§ The record
Sova Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Talview under Video interview 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 | Sova Assessment | Talview |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 40% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · Talview 25
2.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · Talview 50
1.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · Talview 32
1.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · Talview 52
0.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · Talview 48
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +5.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus Talview.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | Talview | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 42 (F) | +6 | +5.6 |
§ 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 | Sova Assessment | Talview | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Talview has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Talview, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talview last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next