§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Tenzo AI by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 62 (D) and Tenzo AI, filed under Screening, on 56 (F), 6 points apart. SmartRecruiters leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Tenzo AI leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 70, Tenzo AI 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
SmartRecruiters is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tenzo AI 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 Tenzo AI is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Tenzo AI 45
5.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Tenzo AI 55
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Tenzo AI 83
0.9 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Tenzo AI 40
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Tenzo AI 45
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Tenzo AI 60
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Tenzo AI 62
0.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 83 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 56 (F) | +6 | +6.6 |
§ 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 | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 30 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters and Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next