§ The result
Tengai leads micro1 by 6 points.
Tengai scores 42 and micro1 36 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the Screening cohort. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Tengai: Tengai is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and micro1 on Article 11 Technical Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (micro1 20, Tengai 33, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
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
micro1 and Tengai are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Assessment.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | micro1 | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2022 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · Tengai 33
2.3 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · Tengai 58
1.2 weighted points to Tengai
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · Tengai 45
1.0 weighted points to micro1
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · Tengai 33
1.0 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · Tengai 28
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · Tengai 55
0.8 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · Tengai 50
0.8 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.9 — 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 -6 beside that -5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is micro1 minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 42 (F) | -6 | -5.9 |
§ 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 | micro1 | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 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% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 micro1 and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 75 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next