§ The result
HiredScore leads Ribbon by 9 points.
HiredScore scores 52 and Ribbon 43 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of HiredScore: HiredScore is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Ribbon on FRIA Support. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HiredScore 65, Ribbon 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore 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 and NYC LL 144. Only Ribbon is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Ribbon 42
4.6 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Ribbon 38
3.1 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Ribbon 50
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Ribbon 55
0.6 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Ribbon 33
0.4 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Ribbon 37
0.2 weighted points to Ribbon
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Ribbon 58
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 42 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 37 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 43 (F) | +9 | +8.5 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 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 HiredScore and Ribbon sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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