§ The result
2 points separate Tezi and Tenzo AI.
Tezi holds a 2-point edge over Tenzo AI under rubric v1.0, 58 to 56, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Tenzo AI takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 3 for Tezi, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Tenzo AI 45, Tezi 58) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
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
Tenzo AI and Tezi are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tenzo AI is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tenzo AI | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2024 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tenzo AI 45 · Tezi 58
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tenzo AI 45 · Tezi 52
1.4 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tenzo AI 62 · Tezi 50
1.0 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tenzo AI 60 · Tezi 63
0.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tenzo AI 40 · Tezi 38
0.3 weighted points to Tenzo AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -2.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 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 -2.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tenzo AI minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Tenzo AI | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 83 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 58 (F) | -2 | -2.1 |
§ 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 | Tenzo AI | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 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 Tenzo AI and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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