§ The result
Rippling leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Rippling finishes 21 points clear of Ceipal inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 35. Rippling leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Ceipal leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ceipal 30, Rippling 73, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal 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.
| Record | Ceipal | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Rippling 73
8.6 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Rippling 42
4.0 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Rippling 45
3.0 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Rippling 64
2.7 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Rippling 60
1.7 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Rippling 47
1.1 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Rippling 64
0.9 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -21.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -21.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 73 | -43 | -8.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 64 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 47 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 64 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 56 (F) | -21 | -21.9 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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