§ The result
Bullhorn leads Dover by 9 points.
Bullhorn scores 54 and Dover 45 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Bullhorn leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Dover leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bullhorn 62, Dover 34 — and at a 20% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bullhorn
Bullhorn is a cloud-based applicant tracking system and CRM for staffing and recruiting agencies, with AI features (Bullhorn Copilot/Amplify, automation, and Textkernel-powered search and match) that source, screen, and rank candidates against jobs.
Vendor profile
Dover
Dover is an AI recruiting platform for startups offering a free applicant tracking system, candidate sourcing via a LinkedIn/Copilot browser extension, OpenAI/Anthropic-powered 0-100 applicant scoring, and a fractional-recruiter marketplace.
§ The record
Bullhorn is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Dover under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Bullhorn is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Bullhorn | Dover |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · Dover 34
5.6 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Dover 50
1.5 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Dover 30
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Dover 52
1.1 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · Dover 44
1.1 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Dover 58
0.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Dover.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Dover | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 34 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 45 (F) | +9 | +8.5 |
§ 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 | Bullhorn | Dover | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dover sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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