§ The result
4 points separate SmartRecruiters and Tezi.
SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) edges Tezi (Screening) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) to 58 (F). SmartRecruiters leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Tezi leads 3, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 70, Tezi 52 — and at a 20% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 4 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
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
SmartRecruiters is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Tezi 52
3.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Tezi 58
1.2 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Tezi 38
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Tezi 55
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Tezi 50
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Tezi 83
0.9 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Tezi 63
0.1 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 52 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 83 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 58 (F) | +4 | +4.5 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 11 | 3 | 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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