§ The result
HiPeople leads Covey on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople sits 14 points above Covey under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 47 (F) — with HiPeople filed under Assessment and Covey under Sourcing. HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria, Covey none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Covey 52 to HiPeople 58. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Covey 30, HiPeople 60) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Covey 40, HiPeople 62), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage HiPeople 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
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, HiPeople 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 HiPeople is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | HiPeople |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2018 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · HiPeople 62
4.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · HiPeople 60
3.6 weighted points to HiPeople
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · HiPeople 84
2.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · HiPeople 35
1.5 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · HiPeople 62
1.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · HiPeople 58
0.9 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · HiPeople 66
0.6 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus HiPeople.
| Category | Weight | Covey | HiPeople | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 84 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 61 (D) | -14 | -14.4 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 27 | 8 | 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; HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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