§ The result
2 points separate Employment Hero and RippleMatch.
Employment Hero holds a 2-point edge over RippleMatch under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46, across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Employment Hero leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while RippleMatch leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to RippleMatch — Employment Hero 35, RippleMatch 53, on an 18% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
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
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing 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 Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · RippleMatch 53
3.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · RippleMatch 37
1.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · RippleMatch 50
0.9 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · RippleMatch 46
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · RippleMatch 27
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · RippleMatch 57
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · RippleMatch 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 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 +1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 46 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 53 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 37 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 46 (F) | +2 | +1.5 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 77 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next