§ The result
Tengai leads Fetcher by 5 points.
Tengai scores 42 and Fetcher 37 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Tengai, with 1 level: Tengai is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Fetcher on Data Governance Disclosure. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Fetcher 27, Tengai 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Fetcher
AI-powered candidate sourcing and outbound recruiting platform that automates passive and active talent sourcing, personalized email outreach, and inbound applicant screening for corporate recruiting teams.
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
Fetcher is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fetcher | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · Tengai 45
3.6 weighted points to Tengai
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · Tengai 33
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fetcher 55 · Tengai 50
0.8 weighted points to Fetcher
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · Tengai 58
0.7 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · Tengai 28
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · Tengai 33
0.2 weighted points to Fetcher
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 45 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 42 (F) | -5 | -4.7 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next