§ The result
Tezi leads Pillar on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Tezi finishes 18 points clear of Pillar inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 58 against 40. Tezi leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Pillar is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Tezi leads is FRIA Support, Pillar 30 to Tezi 38. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pillar 38, Tezi 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
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
Pillar and Tezi 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 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pillar is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · Tezi 83
8.1 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · Tezi 58
3.0 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · Tezi 52
2.0 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · Tezi 63
1.8 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · Tezi 55
1.5 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · Tezi 38
1.2 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -17.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -17.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 83 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 63 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 58 | -25 | -3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 58 (F) | -18 | -17.6 |
§ 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 | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 3 | 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
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