§ The result
Sova Assessment leads TestDome on all 7 criteria.
Sova Assessment sits 11 points above TestDome under rubric v1.0, 48 against 37, with both filed under Assessment. Sova Assessment takes all 7 criteria and TestDome none of them; the nearest contest is Data Governance Disclosure, Sova Assessment 52 to TestDome 50. The advantage Sova Assessment holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Sova Assessment 38, TestDome 15, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points Sova Assessment gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
TestDome
TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
§ The record
Sova Assessment and TestDome 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 | Sova Assessment | TestDome |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | HR |
| Founded | 2015 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sova Assessment 38 · TestDome 15
4.1 weighted points to Sova Assessment
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · TestDome 40
3.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · TestDome 28
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · TestDome 30
1.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sova Assessment 55 · TestDome 52
0.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · TestDome 50
0.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · TestDome 60
0.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus TestDome.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | TestDome | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 15 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 37 (F) | +11 | +11.0 |
§ 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 | TestDome | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 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 | 27 | 5 | 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; TestDome has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 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 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for TestDome, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestDome last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next