§ The result
Darwinbox takes the total, Dover takes more of the criteria.
Darwinbox holds a 1-point edge over Dover under rubric v1.0, 46 to 45, across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Dover leads more of the criteria, 4 against 2 for Darwinbox, yet Darwinbox takes Article 11 Technical Documentation, which carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 60, Dover 34 — and at a 20% weight it carries 81% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
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
Darwinbox 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 Darwinbox is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | Dover |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Dover 34
5.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Dover 52
4.3 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Dover 50
1.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Dover 44
1.1 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Dover 58
0.4 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Dover 60
0.2 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 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 +0.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Dover.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Dover | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 34 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 52 | -24 | -4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 45 (F) | +1 | +0.4 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | Dover | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next