§ The result
Jack & Jill leads Ribbon by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Jack & Jill, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 49 and Ribbon, filed under Screening, on 43, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Jack & Jill: Jack & Jill is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Ribbon on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Jack & Jill 62, Ribbon 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 68% of the weighted advantage Jack & Jill holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill is a London AI recruiting marketplace. Its free career agent, Jack, interviews and profiles candidates, and its employer-side AI recruiter, Jill, turns a role brief into a scoring rubric, ranks candidates from Jack's network (and optionally public profiles) with a percentage match, and arranges introductions only when both sides agree.
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
Jack & Jill 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, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Ribbon is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Jack & Jill | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2025 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Jack & Jill 62 · Ribbon 38
4.3 weighted points to Jack & Jill
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Jack & Jill 48 · Ribbon 37
1.3 weighted points to Jack & Jill
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Jack & Jill 28 · Ribbon 33
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Jack & Jill 44 · Ribbon 42
0.4 weighted points to Jack & Jill
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Jack & Jill 58 · Ribbon 55
0.4 weighted points to Jack & Jill
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Jack & Jill 48 · Ribbon 50
0.3 weighted points to Ribbon
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Jack & Jill 56 · Ribbon 58
0.2 weighted points to Ribbon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 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 +5.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jack & Jill minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Jack & Jill | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 38 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 37 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 43 (F) | +6 | +5.2 |
§ 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 | Jack & Jill | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Jack & Jill has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 Jack & Jill and Ribbon sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Jack & Jill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Jack & Jill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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