§ The result
Tezi leads Sova Assessment by 10 points.
Tezi sits 10 points above Sova Assessment under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 48 — with Tezi filed under Screening and Sova Assessment under Assessment. Tezi leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Sova Assessment leads 3, including Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sova Assessment 38, Tezi 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 69% of the weighted advantage Tezi 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
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
§ The record
Sova Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Sova Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sova Assessment | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sova Assessment 38 · Tezi 83
8.1 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · Tezi 58
2.2 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sova Assessment 55 · Tezi 63
1.0 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · Tezi 50
1.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · Tezi 52
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · Tezi 55
0.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · Tezi 38
0.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 83 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 58 (F) | -10 | -9.8 |
§ 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 | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 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 | 3 | Audit reportSources 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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