§ The result
4 points separate Gloat and Ribbon.
Gloat holds a 4-point edge over Ribbon under rubric v1.0, 47 to 43, across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Ribbon takes 1 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 5 for Gloat, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Gloat 58, Ribbon 50) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Gloat 48, Ribbon 42), the second being 29% of the weighted advantage Gloat holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered internal talent marketplace and "agentic HR" platform that matches an employer's existing employees to internal job openings, gigs, projects, mentorships, and learning based on inferred skills and career goals.
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
Gloat 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 | Gloat | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2015 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gloat 48 · Ribbon 42
1.2 weighted points to Gloat
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gloat 58 · Ribbon 50
1.2 weighted points to Gloat
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gloat 62 · Ribbon 55
0.8 weighted points to Gloat
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Gloat 28 · Ribbon 33
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gloat 42 · Ribbon 37
0.6 weighted points to Gloat
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gloat 62 · Ribbon 58
0.3 weighted points to Gloat
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gloat minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Gloat | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 37 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 43 (F) | +4 | +3.4 |
§ 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 | Gloat | 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 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Gloat has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 8 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 Ribbon sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Gloat, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gloat last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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