§ The result
Rippling leads hackajob on all 7 criteria.
Rippling, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 11 points above hackajob, filed under Sourcing: 56 against 45 under rubric v1.0. Rippling takes all 7 criteria and hackajob none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, hackajob 60 to Rippling 64. The advantage Rippling holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (hackajob 20, Rippling 42, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Rippling gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
§ The record
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Rippling under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only hackajob is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | hackajob | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hackajob 20 · Rippling 42
4.0 weighted points to Rippling
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hackajob 60 · Rippling 73
2.6 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hackajob 32 · Rippling 45
1.9 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hackajob 38 · Rippling 47
1.1 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hackajob 58 · Rippling 64
0.9 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hackajob 55 · Rippling 60
0.6 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hackajob 60 · Rippling 64
0.3 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 73 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 45 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 47 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 56 (F) | -11 | -11.4 |
§ 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 | hackajob | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next