§ The result
Rippling leads Recruitly on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Rippling finishes 15 points clear of Recruitly inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 41. Recruitly is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Rippling takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Post-Market Monitoring, Recruitly 45 to Rippling 47. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Recruitly 45, Rippling 73, 20% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage Rippling builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
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
Recruitly 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 Recruitly is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Recruitly | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | AE | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · Rippling 73
5.6 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Rippling 42
4.9 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Rippling 64
2.9 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · Rippling 45
1.5 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · Rippling 64
0.5 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Rippling 47
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 73 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 42 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 64 | -19 | -2.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 47 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 56 (F) | -15 | -15.5 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 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 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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