§ The result
Tribepad leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Tribepad finishes 22 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 34 — across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Tribepad leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; SeekOut leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (SeekOut 40, Tribepad 78, 18% weight), is only 31% of the weighted advantage Tribepad builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
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
SeekOut is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tribepad under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Tribepad is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SeekOut | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SeekOut 40 · Tribepad 78
6.8 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Tribepad 56
4.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SeekOut 25 · Tribepad 54
3.5 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SeekOut 35 · Tribepad 56
3.1 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Tribepad 58
1.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SeekOut 45 · Tribepad 58
1.6 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SeekOut 25 · Tribepad 30
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -21.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -21.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SeekOut minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | SeekOut | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 56 | -21 | -4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 78 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 35 | 56 | -21 | -3.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 54 | -29 | -3.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 56 (F) | -22 | -21.8 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 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% | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 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 Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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