§ The result
Sova Assessment and VidCruiter tie at 48.
Sova Assessment (Assessment) and VidCruiter (Video interview) tie at 48 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Sova Assessment leads 3 of the 7 criteria and VidCruiter 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sova Assessment 40, VidCruiter 32 — and at a 15% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 3 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
VidCruiter
VidCruiter is an enterprise recruitment platform combining live and pre-recorded video interviewing, structured interview workflows, automated scheduling, skills testing, automated reference checks, and AI features such as transcript-based AI Interview Scoring, AI Interview Notes, and AI fraud detection.
§ The record
Sova Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, VidCruiter under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sova Assessment | VidCruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · VidCruiter 32
1.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sova Assessment 55 · VidCruiter 62
0.8 weighted points to VidCruiter
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · VidCruiter 33
0.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · VidCruiter 58
0.6 weighted points to VidCruiter
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · VidCruiter 56
0.6 weighted points to VidCruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · VidCruiter 60
0.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus VidCruiter.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | VidCruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 48 (F) | - | +0.2 |
§ 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 | VidCruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 2 | 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 | — |
| 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 | 12 | 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; VidCruiter has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 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 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for VidCruiter, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- VidCruiter last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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