§ The result
HiringBranch leads Dover by 7 points.
HiringBranch scores 52 and Dover 45 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. HiringBranch leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Dover leads 2, including Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dover 34, HiringBranch 60 — and at a 20% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, HiringBranch under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dover | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2019 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · HiringBranch 60
5.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · HiringBranch 60
1.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · HiringBranch 35
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · HiringBranch 55
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · HiringBranch 52
0.7 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · HiringBranch 40
0.5 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · HiringBranch 64
0.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Dover | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 60 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 52 (F) | -7 | -7.3 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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