§ The result
Tribepad leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 33 points between Tribepad (ATS-integrated) and Mercor (Screening): 56 for Tribepad, 23 for Mercor. Tribepad leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Mercor 10, Tribepad 78, 18% weight), is only 37% of the weighted advantage Tribepad builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
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
Mercor 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, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Tribepad 78
12.2 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Tribepad 56
6.8 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Tribepad 56
5.1 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Tribepad 54
4.1 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Tribepad 58
1.9 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Tribepad 30
1.5 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Tribepad 58
1.4 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -33.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 33.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -33 beside that -33.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 56 | -34 | -6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 78 | -68 | -12.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 56 | -34 | -5.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 54 | -34 | -4.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 56 (F) | -33 | -33.1 |
§ 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 | Mercor | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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