§ The result
Tribepad leads Ribbon by 13 points.
Tribepad, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above Ribbon, filed under Screening: 56 against 43 under rubric v1.0. Tribepad leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Ribbon leads 1, including FRIA Support, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ribbon 38, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ribbon
Ribbon is an AI recruiter that runs voice and video screening interviews with applicants around the clock, scores each interview against default and custom rubrics, ranks candidates for recruiter review, and syncs the results to 60+ applicant tracking systems.
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
Ribbon 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, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Ribbon is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ribbon | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | GB |
| Founded | 2020 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ribbon 38 · Tribepad 78
7.2 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ribbon 42 · Tribepad 56
2.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ribbon 37 · Tribepad 54
2.0 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ribbon 50 · Tribepad 56
0.9 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ribbon 33 · Tribepad 30
0.4 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ribbon 55 · Tribepad 58
0.4 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -12.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ribbon minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Ribbon | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 78 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 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% | 37 | 54 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 56 (F) | -13 | -12.9 |
§ 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 | Ribbon | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources 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 domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ribbon has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 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 Ribbon and Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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