§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Ribbon on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) opens a 19-point lead on Ribbon (Screening), 62 (D) to 43 (F). SmartRecruiters takes all 7 criteria and Ribbon none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Ribbon 58 to SmartRecruiters 63. The advantage SmartRecruiters holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Ribbon 38, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points SmartRecruiters gains 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Ribbon is filed under Screening AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated 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 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ribbon 38 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ribbon 42 · SmartRecruiters 70
5.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ribbon 33 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ribbon 50 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ribbon 37 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ribbon 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ribbon 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ribbon minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Ribbon | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 70 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 78 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 48 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 62 (D) | -19 | -19.0 |
§ 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 | Ribbon | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Ribbon and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next