§ The result
HiringBranch leads Tengai by 10 points.
HiringBranch sits 10 points above Tengai under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 42 — with HiringBranch filed under Assessment and Tengai under Screening. HiringBranch leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Tengai leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HiringBranch 60, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
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
HiringBranch 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 | HiringBranch | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | SE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Tengai 33
4.9 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Tengai 45
3.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Tengai 28
1.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Tengai 33
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Tengai 50
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Tengai 58
0.7 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Tengai 55
0.7 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 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 +10.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 42 (F) | +10 | +10.5 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 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% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiringBranch 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 HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next