§ The result
Covey leads RecruitBot by 10 points.
Covey sits 10 points above RecruitBot under rubric v1.0, 47 against 37, with both filed under Sourcing. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Covey: Covey is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and RecruitBot on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Covey 72, RecruitBot 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 78% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 5 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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Covey and RecruitBot are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Covey is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Covey | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · RecruitBot 22
9.0 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · RecruitBot 33
1.4 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · RecruitBot 40
1.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · RecruitBot 48
0.6 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · RecruitBot 27
0.3 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · RecruitBot 50
0.2 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · RecruitBot 55
0.2 weighted points to Covey
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Covey | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 22 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 37 (F) | +10 | +10.0 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 6 | 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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