§ The result
3 points separate Braintrust AIR and Tenzo AI.
Braintrust AIR holds a 3-point edge over Tenzo AI under rubric v1.0, 59 to 56, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Braintrust AIR leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Tenzo AI leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. Braintrust AIR takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Braintrust AIR 58, Tenzo AI 45), which is 51% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Braintrust AIR 62 to Tenzo AI 45.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
Vendor profile
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR and Tenzo AI are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Tenzo AI 45
2.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Tenzo AI 45
2.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Tenzo AI 83
1.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Tenzo AI 40
0.8 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Tenzo AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Tenzo AI 55
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Tenzo AI 62
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 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 +2.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 83 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 56 (F) | +3 | +2.9 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 30 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next