§ The result
HiredScore leads Covey by 5 points.
HiredScore scores 52 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Sourcing cohort. HiredScore leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 40, HiredScore 65 — and at a 20% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage HiredScore 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
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
Covey and HiredScore 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 | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · HiredScore 65
5.0 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · HiredScore 55
3.1 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · HiredScore 60
1.0 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · HiredScore 30
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · HiredScore 35
0.6 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · HiredScore 55
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · HiredScore 60
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | Covey | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 65 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 55 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 52 (F) | -5 | -4.9 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 20 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next