§ The result
4 points separate RippleMatch and Tengai.
RippleMatch (Sourcing) edges Tengai (Screening) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42. Tengai takes 2 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 4 for RippleMatch, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (RippleMatch 53, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 77% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
Vendor profile
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
§ The record
RippleMatch is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | RippleMatch | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2016 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RippleMatch 53 · Tengai 33
3.6 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RippleMatch 37 · Tengai 33
0.5 weighted points to RippleMatch
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RippleMatch 60 · Tengai 55
0.4 weighted points to RippleMatch
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RippleMatch 46 · Tengai 45
0.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RippleMatch 27 · Tengai 28
0.1 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RippleMatch 57 · Tengai 58
0.1 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RippleMatch minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | RippleMatch | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 45 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 53 | 33 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 28 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 33 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +4.4 |
§ 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 | RippleMatch | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RippleMatch and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 84 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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