§ The result
Tribepad leads Recruitly by 15 points.
Tribepad finishes 15 points clear of Recruitly inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 41. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Tribepad, with 1 level: Tribepad is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruitly on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruitly 15, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 70% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
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
Recruitly 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 | Recruitly | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AE | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Tribepad 78
11.3 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · Tribepad 56
2.2 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Tribepad 56
1.6 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Tribepad 54
1.1 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · Tribepad 30
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 78 | -63 | -11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 56 (F) | -15 | -15.3 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 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 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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