§ The result
Rippling and Tenzo AI tie at 56.
Rippling, filed under ATS-integrated, and Tenzo AI, filed under Screening, tie at 56 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Rippling leads 5 of the 7 criteria and Tenzo AI 1, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Rippling 42, Tenzo AI 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 100% of the weighted advantage Tenzo AI holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
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
Rippling is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tenzo AI under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tenzo AI is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Rippling | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · Tenzo AI 83
7.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · Tenzo AI 45
5.6 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · Tenzo AI 55
1.3 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · Tenzo AI 40
0.8 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · Tenzo AI 45
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · Tenzo AI 62
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 45 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 83 | -41 | -7.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 45 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 56 (F) | - | +0.7 |
§ 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 | Rippling | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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