§ The result
1 point separates X0PA AI and Covey.
X0PA AI (Assessment) edges Covey (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47. X0PA AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Covey leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Covey — Covey 72, X0PA AI 44, on an 18% weight — which is 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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
§ The record
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, X0PA AI under Assessment 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. Only X0PA AI is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · X0PA AI 44
5.0 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · X0PA AI 50
2.0 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · X0PA AI 38
1.9 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · X0PA AI 40
1.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · X0PA AI 56
0.6 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Covey 52 · X0PA AI 57
0.6 weighted points to X0PA AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · X0PA AI 60
0.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus X0PA AI.
| Category | Weight | Covey | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 44 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 48 (F) | -1 | -1.5 |
§ 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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 12 | 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; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Covey and X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next