§ The result
1 point separates Employment Hero and Covey.
Employment Hero (Screening) edges Covey (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Employment Hero: Employment Hero is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Covey on Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and Covey holds it (Covey 72, Employment Hero 35, 18% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage Covey builds across the 1 criterion it leads.
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
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Employment Hero 35
6.7 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Employment Hero 50
2.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Employment Hero 50
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Employment Hero 62
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Employment Hero 32
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Employment Hero 56
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Employment Hero 62
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 35 | +37 | +6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 48 (F) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 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; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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