§ The result
RippleMatch takes the total, Recruit CRM takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, RippleMatch, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 46 and Recruit CRM, filed under ATS-integrated, on 40, 6 points apart. Recruit CRM leads more of the criteria, 4 against 2 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 — Recruit CRM 20, RippleMatch 53 — and at an 18% weight it carries 71% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
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
Recruit CRM is filed under ATS-integrated AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only RippleMatch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Recruit CRM | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruit CRM 20 · RippleMatch 53
5.9 weighted points to RippleMatch
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruit CRM 34 · RippleMatch 46
2.4 weighted points to RippleMatch
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruit CRM 34 · RippleMatch 27
1.1 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruit CRM 54 · RippleMatch 50
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruit CRM 42 · RippleMatch 37
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruit CRM 58 · RippleMatch 57
0.1 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruit CRM minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Recruit CRM | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 46 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 53 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 27 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 37 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 46 (F) | -6 | -6.0 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 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 domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 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 Recruit CRM and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 77 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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