§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Tengai by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Sova Assessment, filed under Assessment, finishes on 48 and Tengai, filed under Screening, on 42, 6 points apart. Tengai takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Sova Assessment, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: FRIA Support (Sova Assessment 40, Tengai 28) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Sova Assessment 55, Tengai 45), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 6 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
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
§ The record
Sova Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sova Assessment | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | SE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · Tengai 45
2.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · Tengai 28
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sova Assessment 38 · Tengai 33
0.9 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · Tengai 33
0.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · Tengai 55
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sova Assessment 55 · Tengai 58
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · Tengai 50
0.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 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 +6.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 42 (F) | +6 | +6.0 |
§ 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 | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 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 | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 76 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next