§ The result
RippleMatch leads RecruitBot by 9 points.
Inside the Sourcing cohort, rubric v1.0 puts RippleMatch on 46 and RecruitBot on 37, 9 points apart. RecruitBot takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 5 for RippleMatch, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — RecruitBot 22, RippleMatch 53 — and at an 18% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email 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
RecruitBot and RippleMatch are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only RippleMatch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | RecruitBot | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · RippleMatch 53
5.6 weighted points to RippleMatch
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · RippleMatch 46
2.6 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · RippleMatch 57
0.8 weighted points to RippleMatch
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · RippleMatch 60
0.4 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RecruitBot 40 · RippleMatch 37
0.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · RippleMatch 50
0.3 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 46 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 53 | -31 | -5.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 27 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 57 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 37 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 46 (F) | -9 | -9.4 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 4 | 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% | 25 | 6 | 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 |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 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 RecruitBot and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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