§ The result
Tengai leads Recruiterflow by 6 points.
Tengai scores 42 and Recruiterflow 36 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Tengai leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruiterflow leads 2, including FRIA Support, and 2 are level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruiterflow 18, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies and executive search firms. Its AIRA AI layer ranks candidates already in a firm's database against each job with an explainable 0–100 Criteria Score (AIRA Matchmaker, shown as the 'AI Matches' card), and adds natural-language candidate search, external profile sourcing and an AI call notetaker that fills in interview scorecards.
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
Recruiterflow is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tengai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruiterflow | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruiterflow 18 · Tengai 33
2.7 weighted points to Tengai
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruiterflow 33 · Tengai 45
2.4 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruiterflow 44 · Tengai 50
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruiterflow 30 · Tengai 28
0.3 weighted points to Recruiterflow
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruiterflow 56 · Tengai 55
0.1 weighted points to Recruiterflow
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -5.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.4 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 -5.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruiterflow minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Recruiterflow | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 33 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 33 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 42 (F) | -6 | -5.6 |
§ 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 | Recruiterflow | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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 domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | 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 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruiterflow has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 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 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Recruiterflow, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruiterflow last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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