§ The result
Tezi leads TalentLens by 12 points.
Tezi, filed under Screening, comes out 12 points above TalentLens, filed under Assessment: 58 against 46 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Tezi, with 1 level: Tezi is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and TalentLens on Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — TalentLens 45, Tezi 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
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
TalentLens 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 TalentLens is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | TalentLens | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
TalentLens 45 · Tezi 83
6.8 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
TalentLens 32 · Tezi 58
3.1 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
TalentLens 30 · Tezi 38
1.2 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
TalentLens 50 · Tezi 55
0.8 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
TalentLens 57 · Tezi 63
0.7 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
TalentLens 58 · Tezi 50
0.6 weighted points to TalentLens
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -12.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is TalentLens minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | TalentLens | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 45 | 83 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 58 | -26 | -3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 58 (F) | -12 | -12.0 |
§ 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 | TalentLens | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | 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 |
TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 TalentLens and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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