Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Sova Assessment vs X0PA AI
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Sova Assessment and X0PA AI tie at 48.
Sova Assessment and X0PA AI tie at 48 under rubric v1.0 inside the Assessment cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Sova Assessment leads 3 of the 7 criteria and X0PA AI 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Sova Assessment 38, X0PA AI 44) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage X0PA AI holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Sova Assessment3
- X0PA AI3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency38 vs 44
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Sova Assessment and X0PA AI are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Sova Assessment | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | GB | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight32% of the movement so far
Sova Assessment38X0PA AI441.1 weighted points to X0PA AI
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight62% of the movement so far
Sova Assessment55X0PA AI501.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight79% of the movement so far
Sova Assessment52X0PA AI560.6 weighted points to X0PA AI
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight88% of the movement so far
Sova Assessment40X0PA AI380.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Sova Assessment55X0PA AI570.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Sova Assessment62X0PA AI600.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 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 -0.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus X0PA AI, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 57 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48F | 48F | - | -0.5 |
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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; X0PA AI 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 and X0PA AI 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 X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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