§ The result
Tribepad leads Equalture by 12 points.
Tribepad sits 12 points above Equalture under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 44 — with Tribepad filed under ATS-integrated and Equalture under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Tribepad, with 1 level: Tribepad is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Equalture on Customer Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Equalture 40, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 57% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Equalture
Equalture is a game-based pre-employment assessment platform whose short browser games measure candidates' cognitive abilities and behavioural tendencies and convert them into a Fit Score ranked against an employer-specific "Success Profile" derived from that employer's own top performers.
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
Equalture 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 Equalture is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Equalture | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Equalture 40 · Tribepad 78
6.8 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Equalture 45 · Tribepad 56
2.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Equalture 38 · Tribepad 54
1.9 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Equalture 50 · Tribepad 58
1.0 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Equalture 60 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Equalture
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Equalture 55 · Tribepad 56
0.1 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Equalture minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Equalture | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 78 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 54 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 56 (F) | -12 | -11.9 |
§ 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 | Equalture | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources 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% | 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 | 1 | 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% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Equalture has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Equalture, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Equalture last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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