§ The result
Covey takes the total, BambooHR takes more of the criteria.
Covey (Sourcing) edges BambooHR (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 47 to 43. BambooHR leads more of the criteria than Covey — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Covey leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Covey. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BambooHR 28, Covey 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 97% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
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
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Covey under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Covey is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | BambooHR | Covey |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Covey 72
7.9 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Covey 30
1.7 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Covey 25
1.3 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Covey 52
0.6 weighted points to BambooHR
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Covey 40
0.4 weighted points to BambooHR
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Covey 58
0.3 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Covey 52
0.2 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Covey.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Covey | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 72 | -44 | -7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 25 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 30 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 47 (F) | -4 | -3.8 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 Covey sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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