§ The result
Ribbon leads Pillar on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Ribbon and Pillar finish 3 points apart, 43 to 40, as two Screening entries. Ribbon leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Pillar is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Ribbon leads is FRIA Support, Pillar 30 to Ribbon 33. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Pillar 50, Ribbon 58) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Human Oversight Design at 12% (Pillar 48, Ribbon 55), 27% of the weighted advantage Ribbon builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
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
Pillar and Ribbon are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2019 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · Ribbon 55
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · Ribbon 50
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
8% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · Ribbon 58
0.6 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · Ribbon 37
0.5 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · Ribbon 33
0.4 weighted points to Ribbon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -3.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 37 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 43 (F) | -3 | -3.2 |
§ 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 | Pillar | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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