§ The result
Tezi leads Saville Assessment by 10 points.
Tezi sits 10 points above Saville Assessment under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 48 — with Tezi filed under Screening and Saville Assessment under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Tezi, with 1 level: Tezi is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Saville Assessment on Customer Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Saville Assessment 42, Tezi 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 66% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
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
Saville Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Saville Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Saville Assessment | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Saville Assessment 42 · Tezi 83
7.4 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Saville Assessment 38 · Tezi 58
2.4 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Saville Assessment 55 · Tezi 63
1.0 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Saville Assessment 60 · Tezi 50
0.8 weighted points to Saville Assessment
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Saville Assessment 50 · Tezi 52
0.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Saville Assessment 40 · Tezi 38
0.3 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Saville Assessment minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Saville Assessment | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 83 | -41 | -7.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 58 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 58 (F) | -10 | -10.0 |
§ 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 | Saville Assessment | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 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 Saville Assessment and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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