§ The result
Harver leads Covey by 9 points.
Harver scores 56 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Harver leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 40, Harver 65 — and at a 20% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Harver 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
Harver
Pre-employment assessment suite covering cognitive ability, behavioral, and situational judgement, including the legacy Pymetrics games product.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Harver under Assessment 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 Harver is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | Harver |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Harver 65
5.0 weighted points to Harver
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Harver 35
1.5 weighted points to Harver
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Harver 80
1.4 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Harver 40
1.2 weighted points to Harver
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Harver 55
0.4 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Harver 50
0.2 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Harver 60
0.2 weighted points to Harver
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.0 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 -9.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Harver.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Harver | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 65 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 80 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 56 (F) | -9 | -9.5 |
§ 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 | Harver | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 10 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Harver has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 0 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 21 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 10 for Harver, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Harver last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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