§ The result
Dayforce leads Dover by 12 points.
Dayforce sits 12 points above Dover under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 45 — with Dayforce filed under ATS-integrated and Dover under Sourcing. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Dover leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 74, Dover 34 — and at a 20% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
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
Dayforce 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 Dayforce is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dayforce | Dover |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Dover 34
8.0 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Dover 50
1.9 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Dover 52
1.8 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Dover 30
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Dover 58
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Dover 60
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Dover 44
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Dover.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Dover | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 34 | +40 | +8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 44 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 45 (F) | +12 | +12.0 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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