§ The result
4 points separate Talkpush and Tengai.
Talkpush holds a 4-point edge over Tengai under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Tengai takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for Talkpush, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Talkpush 46, Tengai 33) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Talkpush 42, Tengai 33), the second being 33% of the weighted advantage Talkpush holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
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
Talkpush and Tengai are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Assessment.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Talkpush | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | HK | SE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Talkpush 42 · Tengai 33
1.6 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Talkpush 46 · Tengai 33
1.6 weighted points to Talkpush
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Talkpush 52 · Tengai 45
1.4 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Talkpush 44 · Tengai 50
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Talkpush 60 · Tengai 55
0.4 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Talkpush 56 · Tengai 58
0.2 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Talkpush 27 · Tengai 28
0.1 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 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 +3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Talkpush minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | Talkpush | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 28 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 46 | 33 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +3.7 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 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 Talkpush and Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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