Dover

Company overview

Dover (legal entity Staya Inc., dba Dover) is a San Francisco-based recruiting platform founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, having raised roughly $23M and served over 1,500 startups. Its stack combines a free ATS, a browser-based sourcing/outreach extension (Copilot), AI-powered applicant scoring that uses a customer-supplied OpenAI or Anthropic API key to rank resumes 0-100 against custom criteria, and an on-demand marketplace of fractional recruiters. The AI is positioned as a prioritization aid rather than an autonomous decision-maker.

Regulatory exposure

Dover's AI applicant-scoring and sourcing tools are automated employment decision tools within scope of NYC Local Law 144 and fall under Annex III high-risk employment use of the EU AI Act, plus emerging Illinois and Colorado AI-hiring rules. Dover has engaged the NYC regime directly: it published a customer-facing LL 144 explainer and posted a bias-audit summary, and it frames scoring as no-auto-reject decision support with mandatory human review, which reduces but does not remove exposure. However, the single public audit dates to June 2023 with no visible annual renewal, and there is no EU AI Act deployer material, so its documented posture lags current obligations.

Path to a higher score

The fastest wins: renew the 2023 bias audit annually with a recognized independent audit firm (rather than an individual) and post the current-year selection/impact-ratio summary, restoring LL 144 currency. Publish an AI system/model card and a responsible-AI/explainability statement to build Article 11 evidence, and add EU AI Act Art. 27 FRIA templates and deployer guidance. On data governance, obtain SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001/42001 attestation and state explicitly that candidate data is excluded from model training. Finally, add an AI-specific model-update changelog and continuous monitoring surface beyond the uptime status page.