§ The result
2 points separate Dover and Ribbon.
Dover (Sourcing) edges Ribbon (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 45 to 43. Ribbon takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Dover, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Dover 52, Ribbon 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 65% 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
Ribbon
Ribbon is an AI recruiter that runs voice and video screening interviews with applicants around the clock, scores each interview against default and custom rubrics, ranks candidates for recruiter review, and syncs the results to 60+ applicant tracking systems.
§ The record
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Ribbon 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 Ribbon is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dover | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2019 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Ribbon 38
2.5 weighted points to Dover
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Ribbon 42
1.6 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Ribbon 37
0.8 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · Ribbon 33
0.4 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Ribbon 55
0.4 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · Ribbon 58
0.2 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 42 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 37 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 43 (F) | +2 | +1.8 |
§ 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 | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources 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 | 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 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 31 | 4 | 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; Ribbon has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dover and Ribbon 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 Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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