§ The result
1 point separates Jobylon and Covey.
Jobylon (ATS-integrated) edges Covey (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47. Jobylon leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and Covey holds it (Covey 72, Jobylon 28, 18% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage Covey builds across the 1 criterion 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
Jobylon
Jobylon is a Stockholm-based applicant tracking system and talent CRM for enterprise employers whose optional AI features score each applicant's CV against the job description, suggest existing candidates for other open roles, draft job ads and screening questions, and run candidate screening and interview scheduling over WhatsApp, SMS and email.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Jobylon under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | Covey | Jobylon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2018 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Jobylon 28
7.9 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Jobylon 55
3.0 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Jobylon 45
1.8 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Jobylon 36
1.6 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Jobylon 60
1.0 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Jobylon 58
0.9 weighted points to Jobylon
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Jobylon 60
0.2 weighted points to Jobylon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Jobylon.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Jobylon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 28 | +44 | +7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 36 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 48 (F) | -1 | -0.5 |
§ 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 | Jobylon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 28 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Jobylon has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Jobylon, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobylon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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