§ The result
Tribepad leads Dover by 11 points.
Tribepad sits 11 points above Dover under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 45 — with Tribepad filed under ATS-integrated and Dover under Sourcing. Dover takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 4 for Tribepad, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Dover 52, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Dover
Dover is an AI recruiting platform for startups offering a free applicant tracking system, candidate sourcing via a LinkedIn/Copilot browser extension, OpenAI/Anthropic-powered 0-100 applicant scoring, and a fractional-recruiter marketplace.
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
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tribepad under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Tribepad is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dover | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Tribepad 78
4.7 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Tribepad 56
4.4 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Tribepad 54
1.2 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · Tribepad 56
0.9 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -11.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 56 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 78 | -26 | -4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 54 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 56 (F) | -11 | -11.0 |
§ 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 | Dover | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 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 Dover and Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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