§ The result
4 points separate Sova Assessment and Vincere.
Sova Assessment holds a 4-point edge over Vincere under rubric v1.0, 48 to 44, across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Sova Assessment leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Vincere leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 3 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sova Assessment 38, Vincere 18 — and at an 18% weight it carries 89% 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
Vincere
Access Vincere Evo is a recruitment-agency CRM and ATS from The Access Group whose Copilot AI scores candidates against a job on a 1-5 star scale, ranks the closest matches from the agency database, and generates job ads, candidate summaries and screening chatbots.
§ The record
Sova Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Vincere under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
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 | Vincere |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sova Assessment 38 · Vincere 18
3.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · Vincere 55
0.4 weighted points to Vincere
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · Vincere 38
0.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · Vincere 60
0.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +3.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus Vincere.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | Vincere | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 18 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 44 (F) | +4 | +3.6 |
§ 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 | Vincere | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Vincere has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment and Vincere sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Vincere, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vincere last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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