§ The result
Rippling leads Test Partnership by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Rippling, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 56 and Test Partnership, filed under Assessment, on 50, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Rippling: Rippling is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Test Partnership on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Rippling 73, Test Partnership 57 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 6 criteria 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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Rippling is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Test Partnership under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Test Partnership is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Rippling | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2016 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · Test Partnership 57
3.2 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · Test Partnership 33
1.7 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · Test Partnership 36
1.3 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · Test Partnership 48
1.1 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · Test Partnership 57
1.1 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · Test Partnership 58
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · Test Partnership 62
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 57 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 36 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 57 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 33 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 50 (F) | +6 | +6.6 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 6 | Sources 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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