§ The result
Dover leads RecruitBot on all 7 criteria.
Dover scores 45 and RecruitBot 37 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the Sourcing cohort. Dover leads every one of the 7 criteria, RecruitBot none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Dover 34 to RecruitBot 33. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Dover 52, RecruitBot 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 66% of the weighted advantage Dover holds across the 7 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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Dover and RecruitBot 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.
| Record | Dover | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · RecruitBot 22
5.4 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · RecruitBot 50
1.0 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · RecruitBot 40
0.5 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · RecruitBot 27
0.4 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · RecruitBot 55
0.4 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · RecruitBot 48
0.3 weighted points to Dover
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · RecruitBot 33
0.2 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Dover | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 33 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 37 (F) | +8 | +8.2 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 4 | 1 | 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 | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dover and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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