§ The result
Phenom leads Tengai by 10 points.
Phenom sits 10 points above Tengai under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 42 — with Phenom filed under Sourcing and Tengai under Screening. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Phenom, with 1 level: Phenom is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Tengai on FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Phenom 75, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 67% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
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
Phenom 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, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Phenom | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2010 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · Tengai 33
7.6 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · Tengai 45
2.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Phenom 60 · Tengai 50
1.5 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Phenom 25 · Tengai 28
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · Tengai 33
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · Tengai 58
0.2 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 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 Phenom minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 33 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| 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 | Phenom | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 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 Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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