§ The result
Covey leads Brazen by 9 points.
Covey scores 47 and Brazen 38 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Covey leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Brazen leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brazen 30, Covey 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 79% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen 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 Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Covey |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Covey 72
7.6 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Covey 52
1.1 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Covey 30
1.0 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Covey 52
0.7 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Covey 58
0.2 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -8.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 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 -8.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Covey.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | 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% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 52 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 47 (F) | -9 | -8.6 |
§ 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 | Brazen | Covey | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 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 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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