Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Brainner vs RippleMatch
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
Substantial gaps
Screening
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
Brainner and RippleMatch tie at 46.
Brainner, filed under Screening, and RippleMatch, filed under Sourcing, tie at 46 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Brainner leads 4 of the 7 criteria and RippleMatch 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 42, RippleMatch 53 — and at an 18% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Brainner4
- RippleMatch3
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency42 vs 53
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Brainner | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2016 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight33% of the movement so far
Brainner42RippleMatch532.0 weighted points to RippleMatch
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight53% of the movement so far
Brainner52RippleMatch461.2 weighted points to Brainner
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight69% of the movement so far
Brainner45RippleMatch371.0 weighted points to Brainner
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight82% of the movement so far
Brainner50RippleMatch570.8 weighted points to RippleMatch
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight90% of the movement so far
Brainner30RippleMatch270.4 weighted points to Brainner
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight97% of the movement so far
Brainner53RippleMatch500.4 weighted points to Brainner
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Brainner58RippleMatch600.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus RippleMatch, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 46 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 53 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 50 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 57 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 37 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 46F | - | +0.1 |
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 | Brainner | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 79 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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