§ The result
iMocha leads Covey by 9 points.
iMocha scores 56 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. iMocha 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, iMocha 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage iMocha 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
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, iMocha 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 iMocha is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | iMocha |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · iMocha 68
5.6 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · iMocha 44
5.0 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · iMocha 48
2.2 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · iMocha 66
2.1 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · iMocha 38
1.9 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · iMocha 64
1.4 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · iMocha 66
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.9 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 -8.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus iMocha.
| Category | Weight | Covey | iMocha | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 68 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 44 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 66 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 48 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 56 (F) | -9 | -8.9 |
§ 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 | iMocha | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 21 | 5 | 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; iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and iMocha 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 iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next