§ The result
RippleMatch takes the total, Breezy HR takes more of the criteria.
RippleMatch (Sourcing) edges Breezy HR (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 43. Breezy HR leads more of the criteria than RippleMatch — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which RippleMatch leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to RippleMatch. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Breezy HR 25, RippleMatch 53) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 93% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
Breezy HR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Breezy HR | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · RippleMatch 53
5.0 weighted points to RippleMatch
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · RippleMatch 46
0.8 weighted points to Breezy HR
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · RippleMatch 50
0.8 weighted points to Breezy HR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Breezy HR 30 · RippleMatch 27
0.4 weighted points to Breezy HR
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Breezy HR 55 · RippleMatch 57
0.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · RippleMatch 60
0.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · RippleMatch 37
0.1 weighted points to Breezy HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 46 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 53 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 57 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 37 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 46 (F) | -3 | -3.3 |
§ 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 | Breezy HR | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 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 Breezy HR and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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