§ The result
RippleMatch takes the total, JobAdder takes more of the criteria.
RippleMatch holds a 1-point edge over JobAdder under rubric v1.0, 46 to 45, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. JobAdder leads more of the criteria, 4 against 3 for RippleMatch, yet RippleMatch takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — JobAdder 35, RippleMatch 53 — and at an 18% weight it carries 86% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
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
JobAdder is filed under ATS-integrated AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | JobAdder | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · RippleMatch 53
3.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · RippleMatch 50
0.9 weighted points to JobAdder
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · RippleMatch 46
0.8 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · RippleMatch 37
0.7 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · RippleMatch 27
0.4 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · RippleMatch 57
0.4 weighted points to RippleMatch
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · RippleMatch 60
0.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 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 -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 46 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 53 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 57 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 37 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 46 (F) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 5 | 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 | 1 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 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 |
JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 JobAdder and RippleMatch 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: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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