§ The result
Dover leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Dover sits 10 points above Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 35 — with Dover filed under Sourcing and Ceipal under ATS-integrated. Dover leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Ceipal 30 to Dover 34. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 20, Dover 52 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Dover holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal 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.
| Record | Ceipal | Dover |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Dover 52
5.8 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Dover 58
1.4 weighted points to Dover
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Dover 34
0.8 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Dover 30
0.8 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Dover 44
0.7 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Dover 50
0.6 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Dover 60
0.6 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Dover.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Dover | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 52 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 45 (F) | -10 | -10.6 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 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 Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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