§ The result
Phenom leads Covey by 5 points.
Phenom scores 52 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Sourcing cohort. Phenom leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 2 are level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 40, Phenom 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 4 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
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
Covey and Phenom 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.
| Record | Covey | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Phenom 55
3.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Phenom 60
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Phenom 60
1.0 weighted points to Phenom
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Phenom 75
0.5 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Phenom 55
0.2 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 75 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 52 (F) | -5 | -5.5 |
§ 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 | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 8 | 2 | 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; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 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 21 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
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