§ The result
BrightHire leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire scores 51 and Tengai 42 under rubric v1.0 — a 9-point gap inside the Screening cohort. BrightHire takes all 7 criteria from Tengai without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Human Oversight Design, BrightHire 60 to Tengai 58. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (BrightHire 50, Tengai 33, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage BrightHire builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire and Tengai are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Assessment and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2019 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Tengai 33
3.1 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Tengai 50
1.5 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Tengai 45
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Tengai 28
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Tengai 33
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Tengai 55
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Tengai 58
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 42 (F) | +9 | +9.0 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 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 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next