§ The result
Covey leads Pulsifi by 14 points.
Covey, filed under Sourcing, comes out 14 points above Pulsifi, filed under Assessment: 47 against 33 under rubric v1.0. Pulsifi takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Covey, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 72, Pulsifi 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 65% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 5 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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Pulsifi 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 Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Pulsifi 20
9.4 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Pulsifi 30
2.0 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Pulsifi 40
1.8 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Pulsifi 46
1.0 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Pulsifi 55
0.4 weighted points to Pulsifi
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Pulsifi 28
0.2 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +14.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 20 | +52 | +9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 46 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 33 (F) | +14 | +14.0 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | 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 | 26 | 7 | 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 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 Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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