§ The result
Covey takes the total, Alooba takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Covey, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 47 and Alooba, filed under Assessment, on 38, 9 points apart. Alooba leads more of the criteria, 3 against 2 for Covey, yet Covey takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alooba 22, Covey 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 90% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
Vendor profile
Covey
Covey is an AI recruiting platform whose Covey Scout product trains generative-AI bots from plain-language hiring criteria to source, evaluate, and rank candidate profiles for outbound sourcing and inbound applicant screening.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Covey under Candidate sourcing 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 Alooba is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Covey |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Covey 72
9.0 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Covey 52
1.1 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Covey 30
0.7 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Covey 25
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Covey 52
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Covey.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Covey | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 72 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 47 (F) | -9 | -8.5 |
§ 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 | Alooba | Covey | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba and Covey 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 Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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