§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 20 points clear of Tengai under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 42 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Tengai wins none, and the narrowest lead SmartRecruiters holds is on Human Oversight Design, SmartRecruiters 62 to Tengai 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (SmartRecruiters 78, Tengai 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
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
SmartRecruiters 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 | SmartRecruiters | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2010 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Tengai 33
8.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Tengai 45
5.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Tengai 28
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Tengai 50
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Tengai 33
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Tengai 55
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Tengai 58
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 33 | +45 | +8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 28 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 42 (F) | +20 | +20.4 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 11 | 2 | 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 |
SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 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 SmartRecruiters and 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 SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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