§ The result
Dover leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Dover finishes 22 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 23 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Dover leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Dover 52, Mercor 10, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Dover holds across the 7 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
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Mercor is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dover | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Mercor 10
7.6 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · Mercor 22
4.2 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Mercor 20
2.9 weighted points to Dover
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Mercor 22
2.4 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Mercor 42
1.9 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · Mercor 40
1.6 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +22.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 22 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 10 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 22 | +28 | +4.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 20 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 23 (F) | +22 | +22.1 |
§ 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 | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 10 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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