§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Covey on all 7 criteria.
Eightfold AI finishes 17 points clear of Covey inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 64 (D) against 47 (F). Eightfold AI leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Covey leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 40, Eightfold AI 75 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 7 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
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Covey and Eightfold AI are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Covey is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Covey | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Eightfold AI 75
7.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Eightfold AI 45
3.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Eightfold AI 50
2.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Eightfold AI 85
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Eightfold AI 60
1.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Eightfold AI 60
1.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 75 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 85 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 64 (D) | -17 | -17.1 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 26 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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