§ The result
HeyMilo leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
The Screening cohort pairing of HeyMilo and Tengai comes out 61 (D) to 42 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 19-point lead for HeyMilo. Of the 7 criteria Tengai wins none, and the narrowest lead HeyMilo holds is on Human Oversight Design, HeyMilo 64 to Tengai 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HeyMilo 83, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage HeyMilo holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HeyMilo
HeyMilo is an AI recruiter for high-volume hiring whose voice and video AI agent conducts and scores async and live conversational screening interviews against recruiter-defined rubrics and syncs results to the customer'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
HeyMilo and Tengai 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 | HeyMilo | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeyMilo 83 · Tengai 33
9.0 weighted points to HeyMilo
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeyMilo 58 · Tengai 45
2.6 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeyMilo 42 · Tengai 28
2.1 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeyMilo 62 · Tengai 50
1.8 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeyMilo 46 · Tengai 33
1.6 weighted points to HeyMilo
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeyMilo 66 · Tengai 55
0.9 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeyMilo 64 · Tengai 58
0.7 weighted points to HeyMilo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +18.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeyMilo minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | HeyMilo | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 33 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 46 | 33 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 42 (F) | +19 | +18.7 |
§ 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 | HeyMilo | 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 3 | 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 |
HeyMilo has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 3 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 HeyMilo and 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 HeyMilo, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeyMilo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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