§ The result
Tengai leads TestDome by 5 points.
Tengai scores 42 and TestDome 37 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. TestDome takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 4 for Tengai, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Tengai 33, TestDome 15) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 61% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
TestDome
TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
§ The record
Tengai is filed under Screening AI, TestDome under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tengai | TestDome |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | SE | HR |
| Founded | 2019 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · TestDome 15
3.2 weighted points to Tengai
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · TestDome 40
1.0 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · TestDome 52
0.7 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tengai 55 · TestDome 60
0.4 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · TestDome 30
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +4.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus TestDome.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | TestDome | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 15 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 37 (F) | +5 | +4.9 |
§ 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 | Tengai | TestDome | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; TestDome has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for TestDome, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestDome last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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