§ The result
Covey leads HireQuotient by 13 points.
Covey sits 13 points above HireQuotient under rubric v1.0, 47 against 34, with both filed under Sourcing. HireQuotient takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Covey, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Covey 72, HireQuotient 18) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 5 criteria 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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Covey and HireQuotient 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. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · HireQuotient 18
9.7 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · HireQuotient 40
1.8 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · HireQuotient 35
1.0 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · HireQuotient 50
0.6 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · HireQuotient 57
0.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · HireQuotient 22
0.4 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.0 — 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 +13 beside that +13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Covey | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 18 | +54 | +9.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 22 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 34 (F) | +13 | +13.0 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 24 | 5 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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