§ The result
Pinpoint leads RippleMatch by 11 points.
Pinpoint, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 11 points above RippleMatch, filed under Sourcing: 57 against 46 under rubric v1.0. RippleMatch takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Pinpoint, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pinpoint 72, RippleMatch 46 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
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
Pinpoint 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 | Pinpoint | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | JE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 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
Pinpoint 72 · RippleMatch 46
5.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pinpoint 68 · RippleMatch 50
2.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pinpoint 42 · RippleMatch 53
2.0 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pinpoint 52 · RippleMatch 37
1.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pinpoint 38 · RippleMatch 27
1.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pinpoint 64 · RippleMatch 57
0.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pinpoint 66 · RippleMatch 60
0.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.6 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 +10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pinpoint minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Pinpoint | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 46 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 53 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 50 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 57 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 37 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 46 (F) | +11 | +10.7 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | 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 domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 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 RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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