§ The result
3 points separate Employment Hero and Dover.
Employment Hero (Screening) edges Dover (Sourcing) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 45. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Employment Hero: Employment Hero is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Dover on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Employment Hero (Dover 34, Employment Hero 50), 56% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Bias Audit Transparency, Dover 52 to Employment Hero 35.
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.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
§ The record
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dover | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2019 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Employment Hero 50
3.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Employment Hero 35
3.1 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · Employment Hero 56
0.9 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Employment Hero 50
0.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Employment Hero 62
0.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · Employment Hero 32
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · Employment Hero 62
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 50 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 48 (F) | -3 | -2.7 |
§ 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 | Dover | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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