§ The result
Tribepad takes the total, BrightHire takes more of the criteria.
Tribepad scores 56 and BrightHire 51 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. BrightHire leads more of the criteria than Tribepad — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Tribepad leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Tribepad. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (BrightHire 50, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 69% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Tribepad under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only BrightHire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Tribepad 78
5.0 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Tribepad 54
1.4 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Tribepad 30
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Tribepad 56
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Tribepad 56
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Tribepad 58
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 78 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 56 (F) | -5 | -5.2 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 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 BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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