§ The result
Tenzo AI leads Pillar on all 7 criteria.
Tenzo AI finishes 16 points clear of Pillar inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 40. Tenzo AI takes all 7 criteria and Pillar none of them; the nearest contest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Pillar 42 to Tenzo AI 45. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Pillar 38, Tenzo AI 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Tenzo AI holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
Vendor profile
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
Pillar and Tenzo AI are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · Tenzo AI 83
8.1 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · Tenzo AI 40
1.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · Tenzo AI 55
1.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · Tenzo AI 60
1.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · Tenzo AI 45
1.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · Tenzo AI 62
1.0 weighted points to Tenzo AI
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · Tenzo AI 45
0.6 weighted points to Tenzo AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 83 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 56 (F) | -16 | -15.5 |
§ 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 | Pillar | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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