§ The result
Workable leads Tengai by 6 points.
Workable scores 48 and Tengai 42 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Workable: Workable is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Tengai on FRIA Support. The advantage Workable holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Tengai 45, Workable 55, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 31% of the weighted points Workable gains across the 6 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
Workable
Workable is an all-in-one applicant tracking system and HR platform whose AI feature layer (Workable AI / Workable Agent) sources, screens, scores, and matches candidates and drafts recruiting content within the recruiting workflow.
§ The record
Tengai is filed under Screening AI, Workable 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 | Workable |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · Workable 55
2.0 weighted points to Workable
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · Workable 42
1.6 weighted points to Workable
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tengai 50 · Workable 58
1.2 weighted points to Workable
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · Workable 42
1.1 weighted points to Workable
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · Workable 62
0.5 weighted points to Workable
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tengai 28 · Workable 25
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tengai 55 · Workable 56
0.1 weighted points to Workable
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus Workable.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | Workable | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 42 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 42 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 48 (F) | -6 | -6.0 |
§ 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 | Workable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | Sources 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; Workable has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai and Workable sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 17 for Workable, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workable last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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