§ The result
2 points separate Clevry and Ribbon.
Clevry holds a 2-point edge over Ribbon under rubric v1.0, 45 to 43, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Clevry, with 1 level: Clevry is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Ribbon on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Clevry 52, Ribbon 42 — and at a 20% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage Clevry holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Clevry
Clevry is a UK psychometric assessment platform offering norm-referenced personality questionnaires, cognitive ability tests and situational judgement tests, plus recorded one-way video interviews, an interview builder, a skills-first ATS and an AI tool that maps job ads onto its personality scale library.
Vendor profile
Ribbon
Ribbon is an AI recruiter that runs voice and video screening interviews with applicants around the clock, scores each interview against default and custom rubrics, ranks candidates for recruiter review, and syncs the results to 60+ applicant tracking systems.
§ The record
Clevry is filed under Assessment AI, Ribbon under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Clevry | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 1991 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Clevry 52 · Ribbon 42
2.0 weighted points to Clevry
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Clevry 30 · Ribbon 37
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Clevry 55 · Ribbon 50
0.8 weighted points to Clevry
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Clevry 30 · Ribbon 33
0.4 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Clevry 58 · Ribbon 55
0.4 weighted points to Clevry
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Clevry 60 · Ribbon 58
0.2 weighted points to Clevry
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Clevry minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Clevry | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 37 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 43 (F) | +2 | +2.0 |
§ 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 | Clevry | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 39 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Clevry has 44 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 39 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Ribbon has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Clevry and Ribbon 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: 44 for Clevry, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Clevry last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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