§ The result
4 points separate Tribepad and Phenom.
Tribepad holds a 4-point edge over Phenom under rubric v1.0, 56 to 52, across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Tribepad: Tribepad is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Phenom on Data Governance Disclosure. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Phenom 30, Tribepad 54 — and at a 12% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
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
Phenom is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tribepad 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 | Phenom | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2010 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · Tribepad 54
2.9 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Phenom 25 · Tribepad 30
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Phenom 60 · Tribepad 56
0.6 weighted points to Phenom
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · Tribepad 78
0.5 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Phenom 55 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · Tribepad 56
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 78 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 54 | -24 | -2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 56 (F) | -4 | -3.8 |
§ 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 | Phenom | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 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% | 1 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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