§ The result
Fuel50 leads Ribbon by 15 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Fuel50 (Sourcing) opens a 15-point lead on Ribbon (Screening), 58 to 43. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Fuel50: Fuel50 is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Ribbon on FRIA Support. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Fuel50 68, Ribbon 38) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Fuel50 70, Ribbon 42), the second being 39% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
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
Fuel50 is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Ribbon under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fuel50 | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2011 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fuel50 70 · Ribbon 42
5.6 weighted points to Fuel50
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · Ribbon 38
5.4 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · Ribbon 50
2.1 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · Ribbon 55
0.7 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fuel50 40 · Ribbon 37
0.4 weighted points to Fuel50
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fuel50 62 · Ribbon 58
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fuel50 32 · Ribbon 33
0.1 weighted points to Ribbon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 42 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 38 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 55 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 37 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 43 (F) | +15 | +14.3 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 24 | 4 | 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 |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 Fuel50 and Ribbon sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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