§ The result
Dover leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Dover sits 11 points above Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 34 — with Dover filed under Sourcing and Zappyhire under Screening. Dover leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Dover 34 to Zappyhire 30. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Dover 52, Zappyhire 28, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 39% 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dover | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Zappyhire 28
4.3 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Zappyhire 28
1.9 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · Zappyhire 42
1.2 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · Zappyhire 45
1.2 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Zappyhire 50
1.0 weighted points to Dover
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Zappyhire 30
0.8 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 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 +11.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 30 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 28 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 34 (F) | +11 | +11.2 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dover and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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