§ The result
Tezi leads Tengai by 16 points.
The Screening cohort pairing of Tezi and Tengai comes out 58 to 42 under rubric v1.0, a 16-point lead for Tezi. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Tezi: Tezi is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Tengai on Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Tengai 33, Tezi 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
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
Tengai and Tezi are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tengai | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · Tezi 83
9.0 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · Tezi 58
3.0 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tengai 28 · Tezi 38
1.5 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · Tezi 52
1.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tengai 50 · Tezi 55
0.8 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · Tezi 63
0.6 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tengai 55 · Tezi 50
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 83 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 58 | -25 | -3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 58 (F) | -16 | -15.8 |
§ 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 | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 37 | 5 | 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 |
Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 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 Tengai and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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