§ The result
HiPeople leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, HiPeople (Assessment) opens a 19-point lead on Tengai (Screening), 61 (D) to 42 (F). HiPeople takes all 7 criteria and Tengai none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, HiPeople 62 to Tengai 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiPeople 84, Tengai 33 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
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
HiPeople is filed under Assessment AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | SE |
| Founded | 2019 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Tengai 33
9.2 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Tengai 45
3.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Tengai 33
3.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Tengai 50
1.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Tengai 28
1.1 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Tengai 55
0.9 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Tengai 58
0.5 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.4 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 +19.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 33 | +51 | +9.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +3.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 42 (F) | +19 | +19.4 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | 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 |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 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 HiPeople and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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