§ The result
2 points separate UKG and Tengai.
UKG (ATS-integrated) edges Tengai (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 44 to 42. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of UKG, with 1 level: UKG is ahead on FRIA Support and Tengai on Human Oversight Design. Even FRIA Support, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Tengai 28, UKG 35, 15% weight), is only 33% of the weighted advantage UKG builds 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
Tengai is filed under Screening AI, UKG under ATS-integrated 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 | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 24% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tengai 28 · UKG 35
1.1 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tengai 50 · UKG 56
0.9 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · UKG 52
0.7 weighted points to Tengai
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · UKG 48
0.6 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · UKG 38
0.6 weighted points to UKG
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · UKG 30
0.5 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 38 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 44 (F) | -2 | -1.9 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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