§ The result
1 point separates Ribbon and hireEZ.
Ribbon holds a 1-point edge over hireEZ under rubric v1.0, 43 to 42, across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to hireEZ and Ribbon, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Ribbon holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Data Governance Disclosure is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to hireEZ — hireEZ 60, Ribbon 50, on a 15% weight — which is 76% of the weighted advantage hireEZ holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
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
hireEZ 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, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Ribbon is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | hireEZ | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2015 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · Ribbon 50
1.5 weighted points to hireEZ
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Ribbon 38
1.4 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · Ribbon 33
1.2 weighted points to Ribbon
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · Ribbon 42
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Ribbon 55
0.4 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hireEZ 38 · Ribbon 37
0.1 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 37 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 43 (F) | -1 | -1.5 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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