§ The result
Tribepad leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
Tribepad finishes 16 points clear of Paycor inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 40. Tribepad leads every one of the 7 criteria, Paycor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Paycor 27 to Tribepad 30. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Paycor 25, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 57% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
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
Paycor 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 | Paycor | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1990 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · Tribepad 78
9.5 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycor 40 · Tribepad 56
3.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycor 38 · Tribepad 54
1.9 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · Tribepad 56
0.9 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · Tribepad 30
0.4 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycor 55 · Tribepad 58
0.4 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 56 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 78 | -53 | -9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 54 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 56 (F) | -16 | -16.6 |
§ 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 | Paycor | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 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 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 24 | 6 | 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 |
Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 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 Paycor and Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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