Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs Ribbon
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
2 points separate hackajob and Ribbon.
hackajob holds a 2-point edge over Ribbon under rubric v1.0, 45 to 43, across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of hackajob, with 1 level: hackajob is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Ribbon on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hackajob 60, Ribbon 42 — and at a 20% weight it carries 71% of the weighted advantage hackajob holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob4
- Ribbon2
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation60 vs 42
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Ribbon under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Ribbon is in scope of
| Record | hackajob | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2020 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight43% of the movement so far
hackajob60Ribbon423.6 weighted points to hackajob
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight81% of the movement so far
hackajob20Ribbon383.2 weighted points to Ribbon
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight95% of the movement so far
hackajob58Ribbon501.2 weighted points to hackajob
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
hackajob60Ribbon580.2 weighted points to hackajob
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight99% of the movement so far
hackajob32Ribbon330.1 weighted points to Ribbon
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob38Ribbon370.1 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 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 +1.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Ribbon, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 37 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 43F | +2 | +1.7 |
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 | hackajob | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 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 Ribbon 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: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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