Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
HireAIScore rates Sapia.ai 56 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed June 7, 2026. Sapia.ai ranks 7 of 49 vendors rated in Assessment AI, against a category average of 48. That score is drawn from 20 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Sapia.ai — 16 with a cited source, 4 recording that nothing was located.
§ 01 - Company facts
- Legal name
- Sapia&Co Pty Ltd
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- Australia · AU
- Pricing tier
- Enterprise
- Market side
- Employer-side (AEDT)
- Categories
- AssessmentScreening
- Website
- sapia.ai
These are company details, not findings. They are editable by a verified representative and carry no weight in the score, which is built only from the cited evidence below.
§ 02 - Score breakdown
§ Score breakdown
Category scoring
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
- 01
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20%70
+14.0 · category avg 53
- 02
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18%52
+9.4 · category avg 47
- 03
FRIA Support
Weight 15%35
+5.3 · category avg 32
- 04
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15%62
+9.3 · category avg 55
- 05
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12%62
+7.4 · category avg 55
- 06
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12%50
+6.0 · category avg 39
- 07
Customer Documentation
Weight 8%62
+5.0 · category avg 59
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 49 Assessment AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
§ 03 - Strongest · weakest
Strongest category
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Raw score 70 · contributes 14.0 to total.
70 against a 53 category average
Weakest category
FRIA Support
Raw score 35 · contributes 5.3 to total.
35 against a 32 category average
§ 04 - Cited evidence
Download diligence record→§ Evidence
Cited per category
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence.
Evidence ledger
- Items
- 20
- Documentation
- 14
- Audit report
- 2
- Absence
- 4
- With a source URL
- 16 of 20
- Source hostnames
- 5
- Fewest items
- 2
- FRIA Support
These figures measure how thoroughly Sapia.ai was reviewed, not how Sapia.ai performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
4 items70
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Blog announcing ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification (Oct 2025) covering responsible data use, model training, and validation.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
FAIR (Fair AI for Recruitment) framework page describing four properties and recording bias-test results in 'model cards'.
https://sapia.ai/sapia-labs/fair-ai-sapia-ai-recruitment-software/
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Science page describing explainable SAIGE scoring and continuous validity/fairness testing; no downloadable model cards linked.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedhttps://sapia.ai/resources/whitepaper/fair-framework/ (gated landing page, no direct PDF), No published model card or instructions-for-use located.
Bias Audit Transparency
3 items52
- Audit reportCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Summary of the BLDS, LLC independent disparate-impact audit (US/Canada); executive summary only, full report not downloadable.
https://sapia.ai/sapia-ai-recruitment-software/sapia-releases-its-independent-bias-audit/
- Audit reportCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Dec 2022 press release confirming the BLDS disparate-impact report; no NYC LL 144 framing and no downloadable full report.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo 2025/2026 refreshed independent audit located, No Warden AI / Holistic AI continuous-monitoring badge located.
FRIA Support
2 items35
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
SafeBase trust center bundling ISO 42001 + SOC 2 + ISO 27001 governance, but stopping short of fundamental-rights deployer guidance.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedhttps://sapia.ai (FAIR framework, science, security pages) - no Art. 27 FRIA template, No deployer FRIA guidance located.
Data Governance Disclosure
3 items62
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Security page listing ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 1/2, GDPR, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+, and AWS regional data sovereignty.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
States no sensitive characteristic (gender, age, race) is used and there is no video/audio/camera.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Public privacy-policy PDF covering GDPR Art. 22 automated-decision rights and demographic-data exclusion.
Human Oversight Design
2 items62
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
'Rethinking human-in-the-loop' post: scores carry evidence-based explanations so recruiters can override AI output.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Describes SAIGE explainable scoring with natural-language explanations tied to the candidate's own words.
Post-Market Monitoring
3 items50
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Public multi-region status page with incident history and email/Slack/RSS subscriptions.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
AI-generated-content detector with ongoing production monitoring stats across 25k+ responses.
https://sapia.ai/resources/blog/keeping-interviews-real-with-next-gen-ai-detection/
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
SafeBase trust center surfacing security posture including Feb 2025 penetration-test findings.
Customer Documentation
3 items62
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Public product page for the Chat Interview 'Smart Interviewer'.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Detailed candidate-facing explainer (how it works, data not used, feedback).
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo NYC LL 144-specific deployer guidance located, DPA is request-gated, not openly downloadable.
§ 05 - Editorial notes
Company overview
Sapia.ai (legally Sapia&Co Pty Ltd, formerly PredictiveHire) is a Melbourne-based HR-tech vendor selling an enterprise "Smart Interviewer." Candidates complete a structured, text-only chat interview of roughly five to seven open questions - there is no video or audio recording. Its models analyse written responses to produce personality (HEXACO) and competency profiles, with natural-language explanations tracing each score back to the candidate's own words. The company is unusually well-prepared on AI governance, holding ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification (Sensiba LLP, October 2025) alongside ISO 27001 and SOC 2.
Regulatory exposure
As an automated employment decision tool used at the screening/interview stage, Sapia.ai is in scope for the EU AI Act (high-risk employment use), NYC Local Law 144, and the Illinois and Colorado regimes. Its strongest signal is the ISO 42001 AI-management-system certification. Its weakest point is bias-audit currency: the only independent disparate-impact audit it publishes (BLDS, LLC) dates to December 2022, is framed as a US/Canada study rather than an annually-refreshed NYC LL 144 audit, and the full report is not openly downloadable.
Path to a higher score
The fastest gains are in bias-audit transparency and FRIA support. Publishing a current independent NYC LL 144-format audit with openly downloadable impact-ratio tables would move it from "one old audit" to "consecutive public audits." Posting model cards and an instructions-for-use / deployer-obligations pack (leveraging the ISO 42001 documentation it already maintains) would lift the Article 11 and customer-documentation scores, and an explicit Article 27 FRIA template would be a clear differentiator.
§ 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.
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