§ The result
Sense leads Ribbon on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sense opens a 15-point lead on Ribbon, 58 to 43, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ribbon none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Ribbon 58 to Sense 62. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Ribbon 38, Sense 72) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Ribbon and Sense are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Ribbon is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ribbon | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ribbon 38 · Sense 72
6.1 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ribbon 42 · Sense 60
3.6 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ribbon 37 · Sense 52
1.8 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ribbon 50 · Sense 58
1.2 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ribbon 55 · Sense 64
1.1 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ribbon 33 · Sense 38
0.8 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ribbon 58 · Sense 62
0.3 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 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 -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ribbon minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Ribbon | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 72 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 38 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 52 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 58 (F) | -15 | -14.9 |
§ 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 | Ribbon | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ribbon has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Ribbon and Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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