§ The result
Rippling leads UKG on all 7 criteria.
Rippling sits 12 points above UKG under rubric v1.0, 56 against 44, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Rippling leads every one of the 7 criteria, UKG none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Rippling 64 to UKG 56. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Rippling 73, UKG 48 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 7 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
Rippling and UKG are both filed 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 UKG is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Rippling | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · UKG 48
5.0 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · UKG 30
2.2 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · UKG 35
1.5 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · UKG 56
1.2 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · UKG 38
1.1 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · UKG 52
1.0 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · UKG 55
0.7 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.6 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 +12.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 48 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 56 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 38 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 44 (F) | +12 | +12.6 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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