§ The result
Spark Hire leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
Spark Hire, filed under Video interview, comes out 11 points above Tengai, filed under Screening: 53 against 42 under rubric v1.0. Of the 7 criteria Tengai wins none, and the narrowest lead Spark Hire holds is on FRIA Support, Spark Hire 30 to Tengai 28. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Spark Hire 62, Tengai 33 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
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
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Spark Hire | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · Tengai 33
5.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · Tengai 45
2.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · Tengai 50
1.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 64 · Tengai 55
0.7 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · Tengai 33
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · Tengai 58
0.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Spark Hire 30 · Tengai 28
0.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 33 | +29 | +5.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 42 (F) | +11 | +11.4 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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 |
Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next