§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Sova Assessment by 8 points.
Workday Recruiting AI scores 56 and Sova Assessment 48 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Sova Assessment leads 2, including FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Sova Assessment 38, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Sova Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Sova Assessment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sova Assessment | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sova Assessment 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
3.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sova Assessment 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 70 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 56 (F) | -8 | -7.5 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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