§ The result
1 point separates BambooHR and Tengai.
BambooHR holds a 1-point edge over Tengai under rubric v1.0, 43 to 42, across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of BambooHR: BambooHR is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Tengai on Human Oversight Design. Even Post-Market Monitoring, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (BambooHR 44, Tengai 33, 12% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage BambooHR builds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
Vendor profile
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
§ The record
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tengai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2008 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Tengai 33
1.3 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Tengai 58
1.0 weighted points to Tengai
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Tengai 33
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Tengai 28
0.9 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Tengai 50
0.9 weighted points to BambooHR
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Tengai 45
0.6 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Tengai 55
0.6 weighted points to BambooHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 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 +1.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 28 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 33 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 42 (F) | +1 | +1.2 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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