§ The result
HiredScore leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
HiredScore, filed under Sourcing, comes out 10 points above Tengai, filed under Screening: 52 against 42 under rubric v1.0. HiredScore leads every one of the 7 criteria, Tengai none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, HiredScore 30 to Tengai 28. HiredScore takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiredScore 65, Tengai 45), which is 40% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, HiredScore 55 to Tengai 33.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore 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 and NYC LL 144. Only Tengai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Tengai 45
4.0 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Tengai 33
4.0 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Tengai 50
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Tengai 55
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Tengai 28
0.3 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Tengai 58
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Tengai 33
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 45 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 42 (F) | +10 | +9.9 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 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 HiredScore and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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