§ The result
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads Covey by 6 points.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting scores 53 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Covey 40, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70), which is 53% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, Covey 72 to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40.
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
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2018 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
6.0 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
5.8 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
1.5 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
1.2 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
1.2 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
1.2 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.3 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Covey | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 40 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 53 (F) | -6 | -5.7 |
§ 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 17 | 5 | 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; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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