§ The result
Criteria leads Covey by 6 points.
Criteria scores 53 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Criteria leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 40, Criteria 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Criteria under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Criteria 68
5.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Criteria 48
4.3 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Criteria 62
1.5 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Criteria 42
1.4 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Criteria 32
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Criteria 56
0.5 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Criteria 60
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Criteria.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Criteria | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 68 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 48 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 53 (F) | -6 | -5.9 |
§ 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 | Covey | Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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