Clevry
HireAIScore rates Clevry 45 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed September 25, 2026. Clevry ranks 46 of 82 vendors rated in Assessment AI, against a category average of 46. That score is drawn from 44 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Clevry — 39 with a cited source, 5 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
Clevry, criterion by criterion
Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20% · category avg 50
52
+10.4
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18% · category avg 41
38
+6.8
FRIA Support
Weight 15% · category avg 31
30
+4.5
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15% · category avg 53
55
+8.3
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12% · category avg 55
58
+7.0
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12% · category avg 38
30
+3.6
Customer Documentation
Weight 8% · category avg 58
60
+4.8
Total weighted score
45.4(rounded to 45 for display)
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 82 Assessment AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
Strongest criterion
Customer Documentation
60raw / 100
Contributes 4.8 to the total. 60 against a 58 category average.
Weakest criterion
Post-Market Monitoring
30raw / 100
Contributes 3.6 to the total. 30 against a 38 category average.
Cited evidence
The evidence behind the score
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.
Download diligence recordEvidence ledger
- Items
- 44
- Documentation
- 32
- Audit report
- 1
- Public statement
- 6
- Absence
- 5
- With a source URL
- 39 of 44
- Source hostnames
- 4
- Fewest items
- 4
- FRIA Support
These figures measure how thoroughly Clevry was reviewed, not how Clevry performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
8 items52
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The Science page describes Clevry's evidence-based test development and says its psychometrics are periodically reviewed by the BPS against EFPA test standards. It states that all assessments and algorithms are transparent and explainable, with no machine-learned or opaque statistically derived scoring.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A public 91-page South Africa technical data document (June 2024) gives reliability coefficients and norm-group tables, including age, gender, race and language composition, for Clevry's ability tests, personality scales and a leadership SJT.
https://help.clevry.com/hubfs/South%20Africa%20Technical%20Information.pdf
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The knowledge base publishes the size, collection years and occupational mix of the English norm groups for the personality questionnaire, ability tests and SJTs (last updated January 2024), with no validity or subgroup data.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The Clevry Personality Questionnaire Technical Supplement 2020 covers reliability, validity, normative data and scale intercorrelations, but is available only by contacting a Clevry Customer Success Manager.
https://help.clevry.com/criterion-personality-questionnaire-technical-supplement
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The ability-test technical information (reliability and validity for the Expert, Enhanced and Essential levels) is likewise available only on request through a Customer Success Manager.
https://help.clevry.com/psychometric-properties-of-utopia-expert
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The AI Personality Questionnaire Builder page says the AI selects traits from Clevry's validated scale library based on a pasted job description, but names no model or provider and gives no validation, testing or human-review details.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Performance Insights markets client-specific 'predictive analytics' whose accuracy 'improves with every hiring cycle', but discloses no method, validation or bias checks.
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No model card, AI policy, ISO/IEC 42001 certificate or EU AI Act instructions for use was found in Clevry's sitemaps (about 1,100 URLs), the help.clevry.com knowledge base (including its search API), or its legal and security pages.
Bias Audit Transparency
7 items38
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Clevry's knowledge base offers to analyse whether a customer's cut-off scores adversely impact minority groups, free for gender because gender data is collected as standard, but publishes no results.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The reasonable-adjustments guide (last updated January 2024) states that Clevry monitors test scores for group differences, including by offering adverse impact analyses to clients.
https://help.clevry.com/support-and-reasonable-adjustments-for-talent-management-processes
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
An October 2025 post summarises a Clevry–Digit study of 314 neurodivergent and neurotypical participants that found broadly comparable test scores and completion times, noting it was run in a low-stakes context.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The full ESRC-supported neurodiversity report (grant ES/S012532/1) is offered through an embedded HubSpot download form rather than as an openly linked PDF.
https://www.clevry.com/en/resources/guides/neurodiversity-online-psychometric-testing/
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A Bourne Leisure case study claims no adverse impact was found from Clevry's assessments in a sift of just over 60 internal applicants, but gives no method or figures.
https://www.clevry.com/en/resources/case-study/bourne-diversity-inclusion-selec-case-study/
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A July 2026 Clevry post says vendors should provide independent evidence supporting fairness claims and calls for independent audits and adverse impact reviews, a standard Clevry's own public materials do not yet meet.
https://www.clevry.com/en/blog/ai-in-hr-why-transparency-and-audit-are-now-non-negotiable/
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No NYC Local Law 144 bias audit or independent audit (BABL AI, DCI, Warden AI, Holistic AI or similar) was found: Clevry's sitemaps and knowledge base contain none, and trust.warden-ai.com/clevry returns 404.
FRIA Support
4 items30
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
An April 2024 post by Chief Science Officer Dr Alan Redman tells test users that the EU AI Act will make them responsible for explaining automated hiring processes and urges human judgement, but offers no impact-assessment template.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A June 2023 fairness guide advises employers on job analysis, informed consent, cut-off use and monitoring applicants' gender, ethnicity and age, without reference to the EU AI Act or NYC LL 144.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Clevry's 2026 survey report (382 HR professionals) includes a 'safe AI checklist' for buyers, available only through a download form.
https://www.clevry.com/en/the-state-of-ai-in-talent-assessments/
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No EU AI Act Article 27 fundamental rights impact assessment template or deployer-obligation guide was found on clevry.com, in the help.clevry.com knowledge base, or in the platform terms and conditions.
Data Governance Disclosure
7 items55
- Audit reportCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Citation ISO Certification issued Clevry UK Ltd an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate (no. 291682018, current from 5 Nov 2025, expiring 3 Oct 2028), scoped to business psychology consultancy and assessment tools including online platform activities.
https://www.clevry.com/wp-content/uploads/ISO27001-2022-certificate-2025.pdf
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The data security page cites ISO 27001 with an annual external audit, Cyber Essentials Plus, a private Microsoft Azure tenant in UK data centres and regular penetration testing, and says Clevry does not employ third parties to process customer data.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A knowledge-base article says data is hosted in the UK or Ireland with TLS encryption and Clevry acts as processor. Candidates give opt-in consent, and assessment data is kept 12 months (24 if hired), then anonymised and archived for research.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The data-protection FAQ says anonymised assessment responses may be kept beyond the 12- or 24-month retention period to aid test development.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Platform terms clause 12.3 lets Clevry aggregate, anonymise and use customer data to improve services, develop features and conduct research, and clause 12.5 defers processing details to a separate DPA that is not published.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A November 2022 post guarantees that only candidates' responses to scales, and no other data, are fed into Clevry's norm-group scoring algorithm.
https://www.clevry.com/en/blog/are-psychometrics-subject-to-machine-bias/
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The public AI PQ Builder widget, embedded on clevry.com from a lovable.app host, tells users that job ads are stored to improve the tool and are never shared, but does not name the AI model or where data is stored.
Human Oversight Design
7 items58
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Platform terms (clauses 5.5–5.6) say the services are a decision-support tool only, that Clevry makes no employment decisions, and that the customer is solely responsible for the lawfulness of its decisions.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Customers choose between manual gateways (hiring managers review results), automatic progression, and automatic score checks that filter out candidates below an ability-test threshold, and can reconfigure score banding and scoring formats.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
With the job-match feature, the customer sets the ideal position on each personality scale, and a traffic-light Selection Report then shows how closely each candidate matches.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Recruiters can reject candidates, apply reasonable adjustments or resets, send candidates a results feedback dashboard, view an activity timeline, and review 'suspicious activity' flags such as repeatedly clicking away from a test.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Recorded one-way video interviews are evaluated by assessors, recruiters or hiring managers, and the page describes no AI analysis of video, voice or facial expressions.
https://www.clevry.com/en/platform/assessments/recorded-interviews/
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Reporting guidance says every report includes a page on how to interpret it, that results are reliable but not infallible, and that they should be considered alongside other information before a selection decision.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The AI PQ Builder shows each recommended personality scale with the wording from the job ad that justifies it.
Post-Market Monitoring
4 items30
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No public status page, incident history, changelog or security.txt: status., trust. and security.clevry.com do not resolve, Statuspage/Instatus/Better Stack slugs for Clevry redirect to the providers' marketing sites, and clevry.com has no /.well-known/security.txt.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A whistleblowing channel lets employees and external parties report non-compliance with legal or regulatory requirements, anonymously if they wish, with reports handled within three months.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The privacy policy (version 23 October 2023) says Clevry has procedures for suspected data breaches and will notify individuals and regulators where legally required, but names no dedicated security or incident contact.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Clevry says it frequently updates its comparison groups and monitors test scores for group differences, but publishes no monitoring outputs.
https://help.clevry.com/support-and-reasonable-adjustments-for-talent-management-processes
Customer Documentation
7 items60
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A public knowledge-base training module covers GDPR deletion and erasure duties, accessibility, reasonable adjustments and impact analysis of cut-off scores for customers.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A knowledge-base article explains test-content security, hosting, encryption, consent, retention and controller/processor roles for customers and candidates.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Pricing is public: pay-as-you-go costs £135 per personality questionnaire and £40 per ability test or SJT plus a £500 onboarding fee, managed assessment starts at £650 per candidate, and subscriptions are priced by headcount.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Detailed product pages describe the skills-first ATS, including automated workflows with scoring checks, the interview builder, recorded interviews and scheduling.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The US-English hiring page markets automated gateways between recruitment stages and anonymised hiring features, and says nothing about US employment-law or bias-audit requirements.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Clevry's blog covers the EU AI Act's high-risk classification of employment AI and audit expectations for HR buyers.
https://www.clevry.com/en/blog/ai-in-hr-why-transparency-and-audit-are-now-non-negotiable/
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No public DPA, sub-processor list, or NYC LL 144, US state-law or EU AI Act deployer guidance was found on clevry.com or help.clevry.com.
Editorial notes
Company overview
Clevry is the trading name of Clevry UK Ltd, a Brighton-based business-psychology publisher whose roots go back to 1991. The company was incorporated in 1997 and traded as Criterion Partnership Limited until April 2021. That spring the UK firm and the Finnish Studentwork and Sharper group companies were all renamed Clevry, and Companies House lists Helsinki-based Clevry Oy as owning 75% or more of the UK company. The platform delivers norm-referenced personality questionnaires, ability tests and situational judgement tests. It also offers recorded one-way video interviews, an interview builder, a skills-first ATS and an AI Personality Questionnaire Builder that maps a pasted job ad onto Clevry's existing scale library. Clevry says it has 2,000+ clients. It publishes pay-as-you-go prices (£135 per personality questionnaire, £40 per ability test or SJT) alongside annual plans priced by headcount.
Regulatory exposure
Clevry says its scoring is transparent and not machine-learned, so it is arguable whether its core tests are 'AI systems' under the EU AI Act. However, the AI PQ Builder, the 'predictive analytics' in Performance Insights and automatic score-check sifting all shape recruitment decisions, which Annex III point 4 treats as high-risk. Clevry sells into EU markets and has offices in Sweden and Finland. The Digital AI Omnibus has deferred those obligations to 2 December 2027. Recorded interviews are rated by people, and no emotion recognition is disclosed, so exposure under Art. 5(1)(f) and the Illinois AI Video Interview Act looks low. Clevry also markets to US employers through a US-English (en_us) site. Its traffic-light job-match scores and threshold gateways would likely count as an AEDT for NYC employers, who must commission an annual independent bias audit; none is published for Clevry. Illinois HB 3773 notice duties and Colorado SB 26-189 disclosures (from 1 January 2027) fall on US deployers. California's FEHA ADS rules require four-year record retention, but Clevry's knowledge base says candidate data is anonymised after 12 months (24 if hired) and never kept longer, so California employers would need to export records themselves.
Path to a higher score
The quickest gains would come from publishing what Clevry says it already holds. That means public versions of the personality and ability technical manuals, with validity and adverse-impact results by sex, race/ethnicity and age, and an annual independent bias audit of the job-match and cut-off sift in NYC LL 144 format. Clevry should document the AI PQ Builder: its model and provider, where job ads are stored, and how recommendations are checked and reviewed. It should publish its DPA and a sub-processor list that reconciles the 'no third parties' claim with Azure hosting and the lovable.app-hosted widget. It should also add EU AI Act deployer guidance with an Art. 27 FRIA template, and a longer-retention option for California customers. A public status page, a security.txt contact and a product changelog would give it a post-market monitoring record where today there is almost none.
Regulatory frame
What applies to assessment AI.
Assessment is the most-regulated surface in AI hiring. NYC LL 144, EEOC and OFCCP frameworks, Illinois HB 3773, and EU AI Act Annex III §4 all apply, with overlap on bias-audit obligations.
Compare
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Ranking
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