§ The result
Rippling leads Wonderlic by 13 points.
Rippling sits 13 points above Wonderlic under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 43 — with Rippling filed under ATS-integrated and Wonderlic under Assessment. Rippling leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Wonderlic leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Rippling 64, Wonderlic 38) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Rippling 73, Wonderlic 52), the second being 29% 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
Wonderlic
Wonderlic Select (formerly WonScore) is a pre-employment assessment that combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation tests to score and rank candidates for job fit.
§ The record
Rippling is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Wonderlic 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 Wonderlic is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Rippling | Wonderlic |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 1937 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · Wonderlic 52
4.2 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · Wonderlic 38
3.9 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · Wonderlic 25
3.0 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · Wonderlic 33
1.7 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · Wonderlic 48
1.1 weighted points to Wonderlic
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · Wonderlic 52
1.0 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · Wonderlic 55
0.7 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.4 — 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 +13 beside that +13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus Wonderlic.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | Wonderlic | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 52 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 38 | +26 | +3.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 33 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 43 (F) | +13 | +13.4 |
§ 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 | Wonderlic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 6 | 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; Wonderlic has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 15 for Wonderlic, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wonderlic last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next