§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
Workday Recruiting AI sits 14 points above Tengai under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 42 — with Workday Recruiting AI filed under ATS-integrated and Tengai under Screening. Workday Recruiting AI leads every one of the 7 criteria, Tengai none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Tengai 33 to Workday Recruiting AI 35. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (Tengai 33, Workday Recruiting AI 60) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Tengai 45, Workday Recruiting AI 70), 37% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI builds across the 7 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Tengai is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tengai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tengai | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
5.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.9 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tengai 28 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tengai 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tengai 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 70 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 60 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 35 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 56 (F) | -14 | -13.5 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next