§ The result
Tribepad leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
Tribepad, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 14 points above Mercer | Mettl, filed under Assessment: 56 against 42 under rubric v1.0. Tribepad leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercer | Mettl none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Mercer | Mettl 55 to Tribepad 56. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Mercer | Mettl 42, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
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
Mercer | Mettl 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 Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercer | Mettl | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | GB |
| Founded | 2010 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · Tribepad 78
6.5 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Tribepad 56
3.6 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Tribepad 54
1.9 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Tribepad 58
1.6 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · Tribepad 58
0.5 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Tribepad 30
0.3 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · Tribepad 56
0.1 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 56 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 78 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 54 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 56 (F) | -14 | -14.5 |
§ 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 | Mercer | Mettl | 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% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 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 Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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