§ The result
Tribepad leads Workable by 8 points.
Inside the ATS-integrated cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Tribepad on 56 and Workable on 48, 8 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Tribepad: Tribepad is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Workable on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Tribepad 78, Workable 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 72% 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
Workable
Workable is an all-in-one applicant tracking system and HR platform whose AI feature layer (Workable AI / Workable Agent) sources, screens, scores, and matches candidates and drafts recruiting content within the recruiting workflow.
§ The record
Tribepad and Workable 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 | Workable |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tribepad 78 · Workable 42
6.5 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tribepad 54 · Workable 42
1.4 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tribepad 30 · Workable 25
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tribepad 58 · Workable 62
0.5 weighted points to Workable
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tribepad 56 · Workable 58
0.3 weighted points to Workable
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tribepad 56 · Workable 55
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tribepad 58 · Workable 56
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tribepad minus Workable.
| Category | Weight | Tribepad | Workable | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 42 | +36 | +6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 48 (F) | +8 | +8.3 |
§ 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 | Tribepad | Workable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Tribepad has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Workable has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tribepad and Workable sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Workable, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workable last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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