§ The result
Tengai takes the total, Recruitly takes more of the criteria.
Tengai (Screening) edges Recruitly (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 42 to 41. Recruitly leads more of the criteria than Tengai — 4 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Tengai leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Tengai. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruitly 15, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 81% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
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
Recruitly 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, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruitly | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AE | SE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Tengai 33
3.2 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Tengai 33
1.4 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · Tengai 28
1.1 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Tengai 50
0.8 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · Tengai 58
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · Tengai 55
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 33 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 33 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 42 (F) | -1 | -1.0 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 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 79 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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