§ The result
HiredScore leads RippleMatch by 6 points.
HiredScore scores 52 and RippleMatch 46 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the Sourcing cohort. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of HiredScore, with 1 level: HiredScore is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and RippleMatch on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HiredScore 65, RippleMatch 46) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 66% 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
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
§ The record
HiredScore and RippleMatch are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only RippleMatch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HiredScore | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · RippleMatch 46
3.8 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · RippleMatch 50
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · RippleMatch 27
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · RippleMatch 53
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · RippleMatch 57
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · RippleMatch 37
0.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 46 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 53 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 37 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 46 (F) | +6 | +5.5 |
§ 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 | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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