§ The result
Tribepad leads Talkpush by 10 points.
Tribepad sits 10 points above Talkpush under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 46 — with Tribepad filed under ATS-integrated and Talkpush under Screening. Talkpush takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 6 for Tribepad, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Talkpush 42, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 60% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
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
Talkpush 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, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Talkpush is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Talkpush | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | HK | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Talkpush 42 · Tribepad 78
6.5 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Talkpush 44 · Tribepad 56
1.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Talkpush 46 · Tribepad 54
1.0 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Talkpush 52 · Tribepad 56
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Talkpush 27 · Tribepad 30
0.4 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Talkpush 56 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Talkpush 60 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Talkpush minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Talkpush | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 78 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 56 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 46 | 54 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -10.6 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 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% | 21 | 7 | 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 |
Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 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 Talkpush and Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next