§ The result
ConverzAI takes the total, Tengai takes more of the criteria.
ConverzAI holds a 2-point edge over Tengai under rubric v1.0, 44 to 42, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Tengai leads more of the criteria than ConverzAI — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which ConverzAI leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to ConverzAI. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ConverzAI 72, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 75% of the weighted advantage ConverzAI holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
ConverzAI
ConverzAI's Virtual Recruiter is an agentic voice, SMS and email AI agent for staffing firms. It contacts applicants within minutes, runs role-specific screening interviews, scores candidates' fit to open jobs and updates the firm's ATS.
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
ConverzAI and Tengai are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ConverzAI | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2019 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ConverzAI 72 · Tengai 33
7.0 weighted points to ConverzAI
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ConverzAI 30 · Tengai 45
3.0 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ConverzAI 50 · Tengai 33
2.0 weighted points to ConverzAI
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ConverzAI 45 · Tengai 58
1.6 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ConverzAI 40 · Tengai 50
1.5 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ConverzAI 45 · Tengai 55
0.8 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ConverzAI 30 · Tengai 28
0.3 weighted points to ConverzAI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ConverzAI minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | ConverzAI | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 33 | +39 | +7.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 42 (F) | +2 | +2.5 |
§ 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 | ConverzAI | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ConverzAI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 ConverzAI and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 72 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for ConverzAI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ConverzAI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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