§ The result
Covey and Hogan Assessments tie at 47.
Covey (Sourcing) and Hogan Assessments (Assessment) tie at 47 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Covey leads 1 of the 7 criteria and Hogan Assessments 4, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 72, Hogan Assessments 44 — and at an 18% weight it carries 100% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 1 criterion 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
Hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments provides science-based personality assessments - chiefly the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - used to predict workplace performance for employee selection and development.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Hogan Assessments 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 Hogan Assessments is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | Hogan Assessments |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 1987 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Hogan Assessments 44
5.0 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Hogan Assessments 50
2.0 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Hogan Assessments 36
1.6 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Hogan Assessments 40
1.2 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Hogan Assessments 62
0.3 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Hogan Assessments.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Hogan Assessments | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 44 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 36 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 47 (F) | - | -0.1 |
§ 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 | Hogan Assessments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 20 | 6 | 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; Hogan Assessments has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 6 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Hogan Assessments, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Hogan Assessments last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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