§ The result
Rippling leads Dover by 11 points.
Rippling sits 11 points above Dover under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 45 — with Rippling filed under ATS-integrated and Dover under Sourcing. Rippling leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Dover leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dover 34, Rippling 73 — and at a 20% weight it carries 60% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 6 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
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
§ The record
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Rippling under ATS-integrated 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 | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Rippling 73
7.8 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · Rippling 45
2.3 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · Rippling 64
2.1 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Rippling 42
1.8 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Rippling 47
0.4 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · Rippling 64
0.3 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Rippling 60
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 73 | -39 | -7.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 47 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 56 (F) | -11 | -11.3 |
§ 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 | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 1 | 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; Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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