§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Covey on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR sits 12 points above Covey under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 47 — with Braintrust AIR filed under Screening and Covey under Sourcing. Braintrust AIR leads every one of the 7 criteria, Covey none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Braintrust AIR 75 to Covey 72. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Braintrust AIR 62, Covey 30, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
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
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Covey under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Covey |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Covey 30
3.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Covey 40
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Covey 25
1.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Covey 52
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Covey 52
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Covey 72
0.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Covey 58
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 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 +11.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Covey.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Covey | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 72 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 30 | +32 | +3.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 47 (F) | +12 | +11.7 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Covey | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 29 | 3 | 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 |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 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 Braintrust AIR and Covey sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next