§ The result
Covey leads micro1 by 11 points.
Covey sits 11 points above micro1 under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 36 — with Covey filed under Sourcing and micro1 under Screening. Covey leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while micro1 leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Covey 72, micro1 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 72% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 6 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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, micro1 under Screening 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 micro1 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · micro1 20
9.4 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · micro1 50
2.0 weighted points to micro1
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · micro1 45
1.1 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · micro1 45
1.0 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · micro1 25
0.6 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · micro1 48
0.5 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · micro1 22
0.4 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | Covey | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 20 | +52 | +9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 22 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 36 (F) | +11 | +11.0 |
§ 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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 25 | 8 | Sources 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; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and micro1 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 micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next