§ The result
2 points separate Fuel50 and Tribepad.
Fuel50 holds a 2-point edge over Tribepad under rubric v1.0, 58 to 56, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Tribepad takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for Fuel50, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fuel50 70, Tribepad 56 — and at a 20% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
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
Fuel50 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, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Fuel50 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fuel50 | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2011 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fuel50 70 · Tribepad 56
2.8 weighted points to Fuel50
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · Tribepad 78
1.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fuel50 40 · Tribepad 54
1.7 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · Tribepad 56
1.2 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · Tribepad 58
0.4 weighted points to Fuel50
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fuel50 62 · Tribepad 58
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fuel50 32 · Tribepad 30
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 56 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 78 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 56 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 58 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 54 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 56 (F) | +2 | +1.5 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 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% | 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% | 24 | 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 |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 Fuel50 and Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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