§ The result
Tezi leads Zoho Recruit by 16 points.
Tezi finishes 16 points clear of Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 42 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Tezi leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Zoho Recruit leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Tezi 83, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
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
Tezi is filed under Screening AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tezi | 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 · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tezi 83 · Zoho Recruit 24
10.6 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tezi 58 · Zoho Recruit 40
2.2 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tezi 63 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tezi 52 · Zoho Recruit 45
1.4 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tezi 38 · Zoho Recruit 30
1.2 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tezi 50 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.8 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +16.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tezi minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Tezi | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 24 | +59 | +10.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 42 (F) | +16 | +16.1 |
§ 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 | Tezi | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 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 Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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