§ The result
Tribepad leads UKG by 12 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries Tribepad and UKG at 56 and 44, a gap of 12 points. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Tribepad, with 1 level: Tribepad is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and UKG on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Tribepad 78, UKG 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
Tribepad and UKG 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 | Tribepad | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tribepad 78 · UKG 30
8.6 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tribepad 54 · UKG 38
1.9 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tribepad 56 · UKG 48
1.6 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tribepad 30 · UKG 35
0.8 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tribepad 58 · UKG 52
0.7 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tribepad 58 · UKG 55
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tribepad minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | Tribepad | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 48 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 30 | +48 | +8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 56 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 54 | 38 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 44 (F) | +12 | +12.4 |
§ 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 | Tribepad | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Tribepad has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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