§ The result
Tribepad leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Tribepad finishes 22 points clear of Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 34 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Tribepad leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Zappyhire leads none. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Tribepad 78, Zappyhire 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Tribepad is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire under Screening 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 Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tribepad | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2008 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tribepad 78 · Zappyhire 28
9.0 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tribepad 56 · Zappyhire 30
5.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tribepad 54 · Zappyhire 28
3.1 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tribepad 56 · Zappyhire 42
2.1 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tribepad 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tribepad 58 · Zappyhire 50
1.0 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tribepad 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.2 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 +22.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tribepad minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Tribepad | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 30 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 28 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 54 | 28 | +26 | +3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 34 (F) | +22 | +22.2 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Audit reportSources 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tribepad and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next