§ The result
Ribbon leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Screening entries Ribbon and Emi at 43 and 33, a gap of 10 points. Of the 7 criteria Emi wins none, and the narrowest lead Ribbon holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Emi 35 to Ribbon 37. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emi 18, Ribbon 38, 18% weight), is only 33% of the weighted advantage Ribbon builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
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
Emi and Ribbon are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Ribbon is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emi | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | AR | CA |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Ribbon 38
3.6 weighted points to Ribbon
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Ribbon 42
2.8 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Ribbon 55
1.3 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Ribbon 33
1.2 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Ribbon 50
0.9 weighted points to Ribbon
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Ribbon 58
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Ribbon 37
0.2 weighted points to Ribbon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 38 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 37 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 43 (F) | -10 | -10.9 |
§ 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 | Emi | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 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 Emi and Ribbon sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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