§ The result
Ribbon leads HireQuotient by 9 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Ribbon, filed under Screening, finishes on 43 and HireQuotient, filed under Sourcing, on 34, 9 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Ribbon: Ribbon is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and HireQuotient on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HireQuotient 18, Ribbon 38, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage Ribbon holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Ribbon under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | SG | CA |
| Founded | 2021 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Ribbon 38
3.6 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Ribbon 33
1.6 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Ribbon 50
1.5 weighted points to Ribbon
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Ribbon 42
1.4 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Ribbon 37
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Ribbon 58
0.6 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Ribbon 55
0.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.4 — 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 -9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 38 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 33 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 37 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 43 (F) | -9 | -9.4 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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