§ The result
Dover leads Pin by 5 points.
Dover finishes 5 points ahead of Pin under rubric v1.0, 45 to 40, both scored as Sourcing entries. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of Dover, with 2 level: Dover is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Pin on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Dover 52, Pin 35) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 59% of the weighted advantage Dover holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
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
Pin
Pin is an AI recruiting agent that searches a database of 850M+ candidate profiles, scores and ranks candidates for fit, can automatically screen out non-matches (each with a one-line reason), and runs outreach and interview scheduling.
§ The record
Dover and Pin are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Pin is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dover | Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Pin 35
3.1 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Pin 50
1.0 weighted points to Dover
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Pin 30
0.8 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · Pin 55
0.4 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Pin 45
0.1 weighted points to Pin
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Pin.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Pin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 30 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 45 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 40 (F) | +5 | +5.1 |
§ 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 | Pin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 32 | 5 | 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; Pin has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 37 for Pin, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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