§ The result
Tribepad leads impress.ai on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Tribepad finishes 18 points clear of impress.ai under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 38 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Tribepad leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so impress.ai is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Tribepad leads is Data Governance Disclosure, impress.ai 55 to Tribepad 56. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (impress.ai 22, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
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
impress.ai 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 impress.ai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | impress.ai | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
impress.ai 22 · Tribepad 78
10.1 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
impress.ai 35 · Tribepad 56
4.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
impress.ai 32 · Tribepad 54
2.6 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
impress.ai 25 · Tribepad 30
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
impress.ai 52 · Tribepad 58
0.7 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
impress.ai 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 -18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is impress.ai minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | impress.ai | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 56 | -21 | -4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 78 | -56 | -10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 54 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 56 (F) | -18 | -18.5 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | 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 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next