§ The result
Tribepad leads JobAdder on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries Tribepad and JobAdder at 56 and 45, a gap of 11 points. JobAdder is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Tribepad takes 4, the remaining 3 are level, and the nearest of those 4 is Human Oversight Design, JobAdder 54 to Tribepad 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — JobAdder 35, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 72% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
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
JobAdder 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 | JobAdder | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2007 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Tribepad 78
7.7 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Tribepad 54
1.3 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Tribepad 56
1.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Tribepad 58
0.5 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 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 -10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 78 | -43 | -7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 56 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 54 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 56 (F) | -11 | -10.7 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | 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 |
JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 JobAdder and Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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