§ The result
Tengai leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Inside the Screening cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Tengai on 42 and Zappyhire on 34, 8 points apart. Tengai takes all 7 criteria from Zappyhire without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is FRIA Support, Tengai 28 to Zappyhire 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Tengai 45, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 7 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Tengai and Zappyhire are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tengai | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · Zappyhire 30
3.0 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tengai 50 · Zappyhire 42
1.2 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · Zappyhire 50
1.0 weighted points to Tengai
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · Zappyhire 28
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tengai 55 · Zappyhire 45
0.8 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · Zappyhire 28
0.6 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tengai 28 · Zappyhire 25
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 28 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 28 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 34 (F) | +8 | +7.9 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 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 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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