§ The result
Tribepad leads Recruitee on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Both filed under ATS-integrated, Tribepad and Recruitee come out 56 and 42 under rubric v1.0, 14 points in favour of Tribepad. Tribepad leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Recruitee is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Tribepad leads is FRIA Support, Recruitee 27 to Tribepad 30. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruitee 30, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 61% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
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
Recruitee 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 | Recruitee | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitee 30 · Tribepad 78
8.6 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitee 42 · Tribepad 56
2.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitee 40 · Tribepad 54
1.7 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitee 52 · Tribepad 56
0.6 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitee 27 · Tribepad 30
0.4 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -14.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.2 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 -14.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitee minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Recruitee | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 78 | -48 | -8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 54 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 56 (F) | -14 | -14.2 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | 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% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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