§ The result
iMocha leads RippleMatch by 10 points.
iMocha, filed under Assessment, comes out 10 points above RippleMatch, filed under Sourcing: 56 against 46 under rubric v1.0. iMocha leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while RippleMatch leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — iMocha 68, RippleMatch 46 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage iMocha holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
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
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only iMocha is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · RippleMatch 46
4.4 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · RippleMatch 50
2.4 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · RippleMatch 27
1.6 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · RippleMatch 53
1.6 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · RippleMatch 37
1.3 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · RippleMatch 57
0.8 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · RippleMatch 60
0.5 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 46 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 53 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 57 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 37 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 46 (F) | +10 | +9.5 |
§ 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 | iMocha | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 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 iMocha and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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