§ The result
Tezi leads RippleMatch by 12 points.
Tezi sits 12 points above RippleMatch under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 46 — with Tezi filed under Screening and RippleMatch under Sourcing. RippleMatch takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 6 for Tezi, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (RippleMatch 53, Tezi 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 6 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
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
§ The record
RippleMatch is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tezi 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.
| Record | RippleMatch | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RippleMatch 53 · Tezi 83
5.4 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RippleMatch 37 · Tezi 58
2.5 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RippleMatch 27 · Tezi 38
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RippleMatch 46 · Tezi 52
1.2 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RippleMatch 60 · Tezi 50
0.8 weighted points to RippleMatch
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RippleMatch 50 · Tezi 55
0.8 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RippleMatch 57 · Tezi 63
0.7 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RippleMatch minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | RippleMatch | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 52 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 53 | 83 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 38 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 58 | -21 | -2.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 58 (F) | -12 | -11.4 |
§ 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 | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 11 | 3 | 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RippleMatch and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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