§ The result
Tribepad leads Zoho Recruit by 14 points.
Tribepad sits 14 points above Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0, 56 against 42, with both filed under ATS-integrated. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Tribepad, with 1 level: Tribepad is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Zoho Recruit on Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Tribepad 78, Zoho Recruit 24 — 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Tribepad and Zoho Recruit 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. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tribepad | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2008 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tribepad 78 · Zoho Recruit 24
9.7 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tribepad 56 · Zoho Recruit 45
2.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tribepad 54 · Zoho Recruit 40
1.7 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tribepad 58 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.0 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tribepad 58 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tribepad 56 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.1 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tribepad minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Tribepad | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 24 | +54 | +9.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 42 (F) | +14 | +14.5 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 10 | 7 | 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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