§ The result
Rippling leads Recruitee on all 7 criteria.
Rippling sits 14 points above Recruitee under rubric v1.0, 56 against 42, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Rippling leads every one of the 7 criteria, Recruitee none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Recruitee 58 to Rippling 60. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruitee 42, Rippling 73 — and at a 20% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
§ The record
Recruitee and Rippling are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Recruitee is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Recruitee | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitee 42 · Rippling 73
6.2 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitee 27 · Rippling 45
2.7 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitee 30 · Rippling 42
2.2 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitee 52 · Rippling 64
1.8 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitee 40 · Rippling 47
0.8 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitee 58 · Rippling 64
0.5 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitee 58 · Rippling 60
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitee minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | Recruitee | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 73 | -31 | -6.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 45 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 47 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 56 (F) | -14 | -14.4 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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