§ The result
Tenzo AI leads RippleMatch by 10 points.
Tenzo AI, filed under Screening, comes out 10 points above RippleMatch, filed under Sourcing: 56 against 46 under rubric v1.0. RippleMatch takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 6 for Tenzo AI, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — RippleMatch 53, Tenzo AI 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Tenzo AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
RippleMatch is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tenzo AI under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tenzo AI is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | RippleMatch | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RippleMatch 53 · Tenzo AI 83
5.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RippleMatch 27 · Tenzo AI 40
1.9 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RippleMatch 37 · Tenzo AI 45
1.0 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RippleMatch 50 · Tenzo AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RippleMatch 57 · Tenzo AI 60
0.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RippleMatch 46 · Tenzo AI 45
0.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RippleMatch 60 · Tenzo AI 62
0.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 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 -9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RippleMatch minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | RippleMatch | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 45 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 53 | 83 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 40 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 45 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -9.4 |
§ 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 | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 30 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RippleMatch and Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 76 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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