§ The result
Spark Hire leads Ribbon by 10 points.
Spark Hire sits 10 points above Ribbon under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 43 — with Spark Hire filed under Video interview and Ribbon under Screening. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Spark Hire: Spark Hire is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Ribbon on FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Ribbon 38, Spark Hire 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 6 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Ribbon is filed under Screening AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ribbon | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ribbon 38 · Spark Hire 62
4.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ribbon 42 · Spark Hire 58
3.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ribbon 50 · Spark Hire 60
1.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ribbon 55 · Spark Hire 62
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ribbon 58 · Spark Hire 64
0.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ribbon 33 · Spark Hire 30
0.4 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ribbon 37 · Spark Hire 38
0.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ribbon minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Ribbon | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 62 | -24 | -4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 38 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 53 (F) | -10 | -10.0 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Ribbon and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next