§ The result
Covey takes the total, Recruitee takes more of the criteria.
Covey scores 47 and Recruitee 42 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Recruitee leads more of the criteria than Covey — 4 to 1 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Covey leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Covey. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 72, Recruitee 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 100% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 1 criterion 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
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Recruitee under ATS-integrated 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 | Recruitee |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Recruitee 30
7.6 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Recruitee 40
1.2 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · Recruitee 58
0.7 weighted points to Recruitee
20% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Recruitee 42
0.4 weighted points to Recruitee
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Recruitee 27
0.3 weighted points to Recruitee
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +4.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 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 +4.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Recruitee.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Recruitee | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 30 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 42 (F) | +5 | +4.9 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 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 | 14 | 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; Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 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 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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