§ The result
Covey takes the total, hackajob takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Covey and hackajob finish 2 points apart, 47 to 45, as two Sourcing entries. hackajob leads more of the criteria than Covey — 6 to 1 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Covey leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Covey. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Covey 72, hackajob 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 100% of the weighted advantage Covey holds 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
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
§ The record
Covey and hackajob are both filed under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | Covey | hackajob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · hackajob 20
9.4 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · hackajob 60
4.0 weighted points to hackajob
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · hackajob 32
1.1 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · hackajob 38
1.0 weighted points to hackajob
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · hackajob 58
0.9 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · hackajob 55
0.4 weighted points to hackajob
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · hackajob 60
0.2 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus hackajob.
| Category | Weight | Covey | hackajob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 20 | +52 | +9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 45 (F) | +2 | +1.9 |
§ 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 | hackajob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 38 | 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; hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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