§ The result
Tribepad leads Adaface on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Tribepad (ATS-integrated) opens a 17-point lead on Adaface (Assessment), 56 to 39. Adaface is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Tribepad takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is Data Governance Disclosure, Adaface 52 to Tribepad 56. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Adaface 22, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 59% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Adaface
Adaface runs chatbot-led 'conversational' skills tests for 500+ roles that score candidates automatically as pass, borderline pass or fail on benchmarked scorecards, backed by webcam, screen and IP proctoring and an AI résumé parser.
Vendor profile
Tribepad
Tribepad is a UK applicant tracking system whose built-in Sidekick AI assistant scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted skills and generates candidate summaries, SWOT analyses, job descriptions, salary suggestions and interview questions.
§ The record
Adaface is filed under Assessment AI, Tribepad under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Adaface is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · Tribepad 78
10.1 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · Tribepad 56
3.6 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · Tribepad 54
1.9 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · Tribepad 58
1.0 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · Tribepad 56
0.6 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -17.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 56 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 78 | -56 | -10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 54 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 56 (F) | -17 | -17.2 |
§ 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 | Adaface | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Tribepad has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next