§ The result
1 point separates Sova Assessment and TestGorilla.
Within the Assessment cohort, Sova Assessment edges TestGorilla by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47. Sova Assessment leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while TestGorilla leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sova Assessment 40, TestGorilla 30 — and at a 15% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 4 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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
Sova Assessment and TestGorilla are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and 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 | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · TestGorilla 30
1.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · TestGorilla 52
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · TestGorilla 56
0.6 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sova Assessment 55 · TestGorilla 60
0.6 weighted points to TestGorilla
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · TestGorilla 58
0.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · TestGorilla 38
0.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 47 (F) | +1 | +1.5 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 14 | 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; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment and TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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