Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Alva Labs vs Tezi
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
Concerning
Assessment
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
3 points separate Alva Labs and Tezi.
Alva Labs (Assessment) edges Tezi (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 61 (D) to 58 (F). Alva Labs leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Tezi leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Alva Labs 78, Tezi 52) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 61% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Alva Labs3
- Tezi2
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation78 vs 52
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Alva Labs is in scope of
| Record | Alva Labs | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2024 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight38% of the movement so far
Alva Labs78Tezi525.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight70% of the movement so far
Alva Labs58Tezi834.5 weighted points to Tezi
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight84% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68Tezi551.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight95% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68Tezi501.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Alva Labs52Tezi580.7 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Tezi, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 52 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 83 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 63 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 50 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 61D | 58F | +3 | +3.4 |
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 | Alva Labs | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs and Tezi 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: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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