§ The result
Tezi leads Paradox on all 7 criteria.
Tezi finishes 17 points clear of Paradox under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 41 — across the Screening and Scheduling cohorts. Tezi leads every one of the 7 criteria, Paradox none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Paradox 45 to Tezi 50. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Paradox 50, Tezi 83, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
Vendor profile
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
§ The record
Paradox is filed under Scheduling AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Paradox | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paradox 50 · Tezi 83
5.9 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paradox 35 · Tezi 58
2.8 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paradox 40 · Tezi 52
2.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paradox 25 · Tezi 38
1.9 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paradox 50 · Tezi 63
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paradox 45 · Tezi 55
1.5 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paradox 45 · Tezi 50
0.4 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paradox minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Paradox | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 83 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 58 (F) | -17 | -16.5 |
§ 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 | Paradox | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paradox and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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