§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads RippleMatch by 10 points.
Workday Recruiting AI, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 10 points above RippleMatch, filed under Sourcing: 56 against 46 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Workday Recruiting AI: Workday Recruiting AI is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and RippleMatch on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — RippleMatch 46, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
RippleMatch is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only RippleMatch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | RippleMatch | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RippleMatch 46 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
4.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RippleMatch 53 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
1.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RippleMatch 27 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RippleMatch 57 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RippleMatch 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RippleMatch 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RippleMatch 37 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.6 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 -9.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RippleMatch minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | RippleMatch | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 70 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 35 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 65 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 35 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -9.1 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next