§ The result
Tengai leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Tengai scores 42 and HireQuotient 34 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Tengai is ahead of HireQuotient on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Human Oversight Design at HireQuotient 57 to Tengai 58. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireQuotient 18, Tengai 33, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage Tengai builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Assessment and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | SE |
| Founded | 2021 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Tengai 33
2.7 weighted points to Tengai
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Tengai 45
2.0 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Tengai 50
1.5 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Tengai 28
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Tengai 55
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Tengai 33
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Tengai 58
0.1 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 33 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 42 (F) | -8 | -8.0 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next