§ The result
Rippling leads Willo by 15 points.
Rippling finishes 15 points clear of Willo under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 41 — across the ATS-integrated and Video interview cohorts. Rippling leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Willo leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Rippling 73, Willo 38 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% 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
Willo
Willo is a browser-based asynchronous (one-way) video interview platform that lets employers collect recorded video, audio, multiple-choice and written candidate responses, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize, rank candidates against employer-defined "Blueprint" criteria, and flag scripted or AI-generated answers.
§ The record
Rippling is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Willo under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Willo is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Rippling | Willo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2016 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · Willo 38
7.0 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · Willo 25
3.0 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · Willo 30
2.2 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · Willo 53
1.6 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · Willo 36
1.3 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · Willo 54
0.8 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · Willo 62
0.2 weighted points to Willo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus Willo.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | Willo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 38 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 53 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 36 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 54 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 41 (F) | +15 | +15.7 |
§ 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 | Willo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Willo has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 Willo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Willo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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