§ The result
Wellfound leads Covey by 5 points.
Wellfound scores 52 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Wellfound leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Covey leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 3 are level. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 30, Wellfound 60 — and at a 12% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 3 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
Wellfound
Wellfound is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform whose wellfound:ai suite auto-generates screening criteria from a job description, then scores and ranks inbound applicants (AI Resume Screening) and surfaces outbound candidates from a talent graph of 10M opt-in Wellfound profiles plus 500M+ enriched external profiles.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Wellfound under Screening 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.
| Record | Covey | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Wellfound 60
3.6 weighted points to Wellfound
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Wellfound 82
1.8 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Wellfound 45
1.1 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Wellfound 28
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 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 -4.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 82 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 52 (F) | -5 | -4.8 |
§ 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 | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 22 | 9 | 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; Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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