§ The result
Ribbon leads Pulsifi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Ribbon sits 10 points above Pulsifi under rubric v1.0 — 43 against 33 — with Ribbon filed under Screening and Pulsifi under Assessment. Ribbon leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Pulsifi is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Ribbon leads is FRIA Support, Pulsifi 25 to Ribbon 33. The advantage Ribbon holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Pulsifi 20, Ribbon 38, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 31% of the weighted points Ribbon gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
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
Pulsifi is filed under Assessment AI, Ribbon under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | SG | CA |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · Ribbon 38
3.2 weighted points to Ribbon
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pulsifi 30 · Ribbon 42
2.4 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · Ribbon 50
1.5 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · Ribbon 33
1.2 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · Ribbon 37
1.1 weighted points to Ribbon
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · Ribbon 58
1.0 weighted points to Ribbon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 37 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 43 (F) | -10 | -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 | Pulsifi | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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