§ The result
Rippling leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
Rippling sits 14 points above Tengai under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 42 — with Rippling filed under ATS-integrated and Tengai under Screening. Of the 7 criteria Tengai wins none, and the narrowest lead Rippling holds is on Human Oversight Design, Rippling 60 to Tengai 58. The advantage Rippling holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Rippling 73, Tengai 45, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 39% of the weighted points Rippling gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview 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
Rippling 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 | Rippling | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2016 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · Tengai 45
5.6 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · Tengai 28
2.5 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · Tengai 50
2.1 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · Tengai 33
1.7 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · Tengai 33
1.6 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 64 · Tengai 55
0.7 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · Tengai 58
0.2 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 45 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 28 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 33 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 42 (F) | +14 | +14.5 |
§ 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 | Rippling | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next