§ The result
Sapia.ai leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
Sapia.ai sits 14 points above Tengai under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 42 — with Sapia.ai filed under Assessment and Tengai under Screening. Of the 7 criteria Tengai wins none, and the narrowest lead Sapia.ai holds is on Human Oversight Design, Sapia.ai 62 to Tengai 58. The advantage Sapia.ai holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Sapia.ai 70, Tengai 45, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Sapia.ai gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
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
Sapia.ai is filed under Assessment AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sapia.ai | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | SE |
| Founded | 2013 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sapia.ai 70 · Tengai 45
5.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sapia.ai 52 · Tengai 33
3.4 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sapia.ai 50 · Tengai 33
2.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sapia.ai 62 · Tengai 50
1.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sapia.ai 35 · Tengai 28
1.1 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sapia.ai 62 · Tengai 55
0.6 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sapia.ai 62 · Tengai 58
0.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.3 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 +14.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sapia.ai minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Sapia.ai | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 33 | +19 | +3.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 42 (F) | +14 | +14.3 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 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 Sapia.ai and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next