# DCI Consulting Group, Inc. - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://www.dciconsult.com - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) 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. ## DCI Consulting Group scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### 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 Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - DCI Consulting Group, Inc. is a Virginia corporation registered as a foreign corporation in Colorado, in active Good Standing. - Source: https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityDetail.do?quitButtonDestination=BusinessEntityResults&nameTyp=ENT&masterFileId=20191104068 - Checked: 2026-09-20 - DCI Consulting Group prepared the NYC Local Law 144 automated-employment-decision-tool bias audit that The Hartford published on 5 July 2023. - Source: https://community.ionanalytics.com/nyc-ai-audit-law-what-five-companies-published-and-how-others-avoid-it - Checked: 2026-09-20 - DCI runs a dedicated AI-Based Tool Review service line with jurisdiction-specific bias-audit deliverables. - Source: https://www.dciconsult.com/personnel-selection/ai-based-tool-review - Checked: 2026-09-20 - 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. - Source: https://www.dciconsult.com/professionals/leadership/eric-dunleavy - Checked: 2026-09-20 - DCI Consulting Group was founded in 2001 by David Cohen and Brian Pirko. - Source: https://www.dciconsult.com/about-dci - Checked: 2026-09-20 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Not published - Indemnity cover: Not published - Credentials: Published - Independent accreditation: Not published - Client results: Published - How it uses AI: Not published ## 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 Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - DCI declined to identify the specific AEDT it audited in its published NYC Local Law 144 bias audits for The Hartford and Frito-Lay. - Basis: 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. - Basis: 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. - Basis: community.ionanalytics.com reports the audit warned small-sample results 'may be volatile or meaningless.' ## Where this firm appears - [Does the EU AI Act apply to a UK firm?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed) - [Your sector adds its own rules to UK data protection law](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/sector-regulated) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.