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DCI Consulting Group, Inc. review

Advisory firm

A US employment-testing consultancy with a service that reviews AI hiring tools for bias under New York City, California, Colorado, Illinois and EU AI Act rules.

Relevant if you use an AI hiring tool and need a bias audit under a specific law

Price Not published
Indemnity cover Not published
How it uses AI Not published
Facts last checked

Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages.

DCI Consulting Group scores

Six scores, each 1 to 5. The evidence for each is further down.

Help when things go wrong 4/5
Qualifications of the people who do the work 4/5
What it publishes about fees 2/5
Knowledge of your sector 4/5
Independence from what it sells 3/5
Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong 2/5

What DCI Consulting Group offers, and what it publishes

You get a named service, AI-Based Tool Review, for checking AI hiring tools. It runs from readiness planning to adverse-impact statistics and validation. The division behind it is led by Eric M. Dunleavy, Ph.D., with DCI since 2007. DCI prepared the New York City Local Law 144 bias audit The Hartford published on 5 July 2023.

DCI Consulting Group does not publish a price. We found no fee schedule, pricing tier or cost figure on its site or in any directory we checked. It does not publish professional indemnity cover or an AI governance accreditation such as ISO 42001 certification.

Reporting by community.ionanalytics.com says DCI did not name the AI tools behind its bias audits for The Hartford and Frito-Lay, and a spokesperson declined to comment. The report adds that the Hartford audit warned that results for groups under 10 candidates 'may be volatile or meaningless'. DCI also partners with HR compliance software vendors such as Mitratech.

Strengths

  • Named, credentialed I/O-psychology leadership (Eric Dunleavy PhD) heads a specific Employment and Litigation Services division that owns the AI-tool-review work.
  • A genuinely named AI-governance service line (AI-Based Tool Review) with real, publicly documented client bias audits (The Hartford, Frito-Lay) rather than marketing claims alone.
  • Methodology is anchored in the recognised SIOP (2018) Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures, a real professional standard.
  • Long, verifiable incorporation history (Virginia, since 2001) confirmed active and in good standing on an official state register.

Things to check

  • DCI declined to identify the specific AEDT it audited in its published NYC Local Law 144 bias audits for The Hartford and Frito-Lay.
  • No fee schedule, pricing tier or engagement-cost figure for DCI's services is published anywhere found in this research.
  • The Hartford audit DCI prepared contained small-sample subgroup cells (under 10 candidates) with adverse impact ratios as low as 0.33, a limitation the audit itself flagged.

Common questions

Does DCI Consulting Group publish its fees?

No. We found no fee schedule, pricing tier or cost figure on its site or in any directory we checked.

What does its AI tool review cover?

Six parts: readiness and use-case planning, expert review, data review, adverse-impact statistics, algorithm alignment and validation. It covers rules in New York City, California, Colorado and Illinois in the US, and the EU AI Act.

Did DCI name the AI tool it audited for The Hartford?

No. Reporting by community.ionanalytics.com says a DCI spokesperson declined to comment on why the audited tool was not named in the published Local Law 144 bias audit.

Evidence for each DCI Consulting Group score

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Notes behind each thing to check

  • DCI declined to identify the specific AEDT it audited in its published NYC Local Law 144 bias audits for The Hartford and Frito-Lay. (Reported by community.ionanalytics.com: 'DCI declined to comment on its recommendations on this transparency question, a spokesperson said.')
  • No fee schedule, pricing tier or engagement-cost figure for DCI's services is published anywhere found in this research. (Absence confirmed across dciconsult.com's service pages and every third-party directory/profile checked in this session.)
  • The Hartford audit DCI prepared contained small-sample subgroup cells (under 10 candidates) with adverse impact ratios as low as 0.33, a limitation the audit itself flagged. (community.ionanalytics.com reports the audit warned small-sample results 'may be volatile or meaningless.')
Six criteria, each scored 1 to 5, with the evidence for each.
CriterionScoreEvidence
Help when things go wrong 4/5 Long-running OFCCP audit/litigation-defence practice plus real, published NYC LL144 AEDT bias audits for named clients.
Qualifications of the people who do the work 4/5 Staff includes named I/O psychologists (Eric Dunleavy PhD); methodology grounded in SIOP's 2018 validation principles.
What it publishes about fees 2/5 No fee schedule, pricing tiers or engagement cost is published on DCI's site or in any press coverage found.
Knowledge of your sector 4/5 Deep, narrow specialism in employment-AI bias audits and adverse-impact statistics, not general enterprise AI risk.
Independence from what it sells 3/5 DCI sells consulting and partners with HR-compliance software vendors like Mitratech, a mild funnel-style signal.
Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong 2/5 No public disclosure of professional indemnity insurance or an explicit liability commitment was located.

Sources for DCI Consulting Group

  • DCI Consulting Group, Inc. is a Virginia corporation registered as a foreign corporation in Colorado, in active Good Standing. (Entity ID 20191104068; Foreign Corporation; jurisdiction of formation Virginia; status Good Standing; registered 1 Feb 2019) (coloradosos.gov, checked 20 September 2026)
  • DCI Consulting Group prepared the NYC Local Law 144 automated-employment-decision-tool bias audit that The Hartford published on 5 July 2023. (LL144 bias audit prepared by DCI Consulting Group; published 2023-07-05; later removed from The Hartford's site by 2 Nov 2023) (community.ionanalytics.com, checked 20 September 2026)
  • DCI runs a dedicated AI-Based Tool Review service line with jurisdiction-specific bias-audit deliverables. (6-part service: readiness/use-case planning, qualitative expert review, data/input review, quantitative adverse-impact analysis, expert algorithm alignment, criterion-related validation; covers NYC, California, Colorado, Illinois and the EU AI Act) (dciconsult.com, checked 20 September 2026)
  • Eric M. Dunleavy, Ph.D., leads DCI's Employment and Litigation Services division of I/O psychologists and labor economists, the group that houses AI-tool review work. (VP, Employment and Litigation Services; Ph.D. Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Houston, 2004; with DCI since 2007) (dciconsult.com, checked 20 September 2026)
  • DCI Consulting Group was founded in 2001 by David Cohen and Brian Pirko. (Founded 2001; President/co-founder David Cohen, co-founder Brian Pirko) (dciconsult.com, checked 20 September 2026)

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