§ The result
Rippling and Tribepad tie at 56.
Rippling and Tribepad, both in the ATS-integrated cohort, tie at 56 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Rippling leads 5 of the 7 criteria and Tribepad 2, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Rippling 42, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 89% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview 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
Rippling and Tribepad are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tribepad is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Rippling | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2016 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · Tribepad 78
6.5 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · Tribepad 56
3.4 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · Tribepad 30
2.3 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · Tribepad 56
1.2 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · Tribepad 54
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · Tribepad 58
0.5 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 56 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 78 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 56 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 54 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 56 (F) | - | +0.3 |
§ 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 | Rippling | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 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% | 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% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next