§ The result
Tribepad takes the total, HiBob takes more of the criteria.
Both filed under ATS-integrated, Tribepad and HiBob come out 56 and 46 under rubric v1.0, 10 points in favour of Tribepad. HiBob 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 (HiBob 20, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 91% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
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
HiBob 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 | HiBob | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiBob 20 · Tribepad 78
10.4 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiBob 47 · Tribepad 54
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiBob 35 · Tribepad 30
0.8 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiBob 63 · Tribepad 58
0.6 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiBob 61 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to HiBob
20% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiBob 55 · Tribepad 56
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiBob 57 · Tribepad 56
0.1 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiBob minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | HiBob | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 78 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 54 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 58 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -9.7 |
§ 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 | HiBob | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 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 | 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% | 6 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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