§ The result
Tezi leads Talkpush by 12 points.
Tezi sits 12 points above Talkpush under rubric v1.0, 58 against 46, with both filed under Screening. Tezi leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Talkpush leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Talkpush 42, Tezi 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 5 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
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
Talkpush and Tezi are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Talkpush is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Talkpush | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | HK | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Talkpush 42 · Tezi 83
7.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Talkpush 27 · Tezi 38
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Talkpush 44 · Tezi 55
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Talkpush 46 · Tezi 58
1.4 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Talkpush 56 · Tezi 63
0.8 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Talkpush 60 · Tezi 50
0.8 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -12.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 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 -12.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Talkpush minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Talkpush | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 83 | -41 | -7.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 38 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 63 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 58 (F) | -12 | -12.2 |
§ 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 | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 21 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 3 | Audit reportSources 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Talkpush and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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