§ The result
Tribepad leads ADP by 8 points.
Tribepad scores 56 and ADP 48 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. ADP takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 5 for Tribepad, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 46, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 71% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
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
ADP and Tribepad are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1949 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Tribepad 78
5.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Tribepad 54
1.1 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Tribepad 56
0.6 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Tribepad 58
0.4 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Tribepad 30
0.3 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Tribepad 56
0.1 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -7.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 56 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 78 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 56 (F) | -8 | -7.9 |
§ 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 | ADP | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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