§ The result
1 point separates Tezi and Apriora (Alex).
Tezi (Screening) edges Apriora (Alex) (Video interview) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 58 to 57. Tezi leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Apriora (Alex) leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 3 are level. Tezi takes the heaviest weighted swing, Post-Market Monitoring at 12% (Apriora (Alex) 47, Tezi 58), which is 72% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Customer Documentation, Apriora (Alex) 62 to Tezi 50.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Apriora (Alex) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Tezi 58
1.3 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Tezi 50
1.0 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Tezi 63
0.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Tezi 55
0.1 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 83 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 58 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 58 (F) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | 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 |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 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 Apriora (Alex) and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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