§ The result
Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads Covey by 9 points.
Pymetrics (Harver Games) scores 56 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 40, Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 65% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) 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
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Pymetrics (Harver Games) under Assessment 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 Pymetrics (Harver Games) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | Pymetrics (Harver Games) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70
6.0 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80
1.4 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 60
1.2 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35
0.6 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50
0.2 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55
0.2 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.7 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 -8.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Pymetrics (Harver Games).
| Category | Weight | Covey | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 80 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 56 (F) | -9 | -8.8 |
§ 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | 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; Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and Pymetrics (Harver Games) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 22 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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