§ The result
Rippling leads Breezy HR on all 7 criteria.
Rippling sits 13 points above Breezy HR under rubric v1.0, 56 against 43, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Rippling leads every one of the 7 criteria, Breezy HR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Breezy HR 55 to Rippling 60. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Breezy HR 50, Rippling 73, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
§ The record
Breezy HR and Rippling are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Breezy HR is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Breezy HR | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · Rippling 73
4.6 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · Rippling 42
3.1 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Breezy HR 30 · Rippling 45
2.3 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · Rippling 64
1.3 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · Rippling 47
1.1 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Breezy HR 55 · Rippling 60
0.6 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · Rippling 64
0.5 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 73 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 47 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 56 (F) | -13 | -13.4 |
§ 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 | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; some documentation or audit rows for Breezy HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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