§ The result
Bryq leads RippleMatch by 11 points.
Bryq sits 11 points above RippleMatch under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 46 — with Bryq filed under Assessment and RippleMatch under Sourcing. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Bryq: Bryq is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and RippleMatch on Human Oversight Design. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Bryq 55, RippleMatch 37) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Bryq 70, RippleMatch 53), 28% of the weighted advantage Bryq builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
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
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · RippleMatch 53
3.1 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · RippleMatch 37
2.2 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · RippleMatch 27
1.9 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · RippleMatch 50
1.8 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · RippleMatch 46
1.6 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · RippleMatch 60
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · RippleMatch 57
0.4 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 46 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 53 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 27 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 57 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 37 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 46 (F) | +11 | +10.7 |
§ 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 | Bryq | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 1 | 1 | 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% | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | 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 |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 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 Bryq and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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