§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads RippleMatch by 11 points.
LinkedIn Recruiter sits 11 points above RippleMatch under rubric v1.0, 57 against 46, with both filed under Sourcing. RippleMatch takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for LinkedIn Recruiter, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, RippleMatch 46, 20% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
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
LinkedIn Recruiter and RippleMatch are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · RippleMatch 46
4.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · RippleMatch 50
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · RippleMatch 27
1.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · RippleMatch 37
1.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · RippleMatch 57
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · RippleMatch 60
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · RippleMatch 53
0.5 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 46 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 53 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 57 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 37 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 46 (F) | +11 | +10.4 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 3 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 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 |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 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 LinkedIn Recruiter and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 81 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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