§ The result
Tenzo AI leads Zoho Recruit on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Tenzo AI, filed under Screening, comes out 14 points above Zoho Recruit, filed under ATS-integrated: 56 against 42 under rubric v1.0. Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Tenzo AI takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is Customer Documentation, Tenzo AI 62 to Zoho Recruit 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Tenzo AI 83, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 75% of the weighted advantage Tenzo AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Tenzo AI is filed under Screening AI, Zoho Recruit 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, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tenzo AI | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2024 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tenzo AI 83 · Zoho Recruit 24
10.6 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tenzo AI 40 · Zoho Recruit 30
1.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tenzo AI 60 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tenzo AI 45 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.6 weighted points to Tenzo AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tenzo AI 62 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +14.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.1 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 +14.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tenzo AI minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Tenzo AI | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 24 | +59 | +10.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 42 (F) | +14 | +14.1 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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