§ The result
Covey leads Aon Assessment on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Covey sits 12 points above Aon Assessment under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 35 — with Covey filed under Sourcing and Aon Assessment under Assessment. Covey leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Aon Assessment is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Covey leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Aon Assessment 25 to Covey 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Aon Assessment 30, Covey 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Aon Assessment
Aon Assessment Solutions (formerly cut-e) provides enterprise pre-hire psychometric assessments - ability, personality (ADEPT-15), situational-judgement, gamified cognitive (smartPredict/gridChallenge) tests and an AI-scored video interview tool (vidAssess-AI) - used to screen and rank job applicants at scale.
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
Aon Assessment 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 Aon Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Aon Assessment | Covey |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · Covey 72
7.6 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · Covey 52
2.1 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · Covey 52
0.8 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · Covey 58
0.8 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · Covey 30
0.6 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -11.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus Covey.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | Covey | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 72 | -42 | -7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 47 (F) | -12 | -11.9 |
§ 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 | Aon Assessment | Covey | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Aon Assessment has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 Aon Assessment and Covey sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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