Tezi
HireAIScore rates Tezi 58 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed June 7, 2026. Tezi ranks 10 of 160 vendors rated in Screening AI, against a category average of 46. That score is drawn from 14 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Tezi — 11 with a cited source, 3 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
Tezi, criterion by criterion
Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20% · category avg 49
52
+10.4
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18% · category avg 41
83
+14.9
FRIA Support
Weight 15% · category avg 31
38
+5.7
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15% · category avg 53
55
+8.3
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12% · category avg 56
63
+7.6
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12% · category avg 40
58
+7.0
Customer Documentation
Weight 8% · category avg 58
50
+4.0
Total weighted score
57.8(rounded to 58 for display)
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 160 Screening AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
Strongest criterion
Bias Audit Transparency
83raw / 100
Contributes 14.9 to the total. 83 against a 41 category average.
Weakest criterion
FRIA Support
38raw / 100
Contributes 5.7 to the total. 38 against a 31 category average.
Cited evidence
The evidence behind the score
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.
Download diligence recordEvidence ledger
- Items
- 14
- Documentation
- 3
- Audit report
- 2
- Public statement
- 6
- Absence
- 3
- With a source URL
- 11 of 14
- Source hostnames
- 3
- Fewest items
- 2
- Article 11 Technical Documentation
These figures measure how thoroughly Tezi was reviewed, not how Tezi performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
2 items52
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Tezi's 'Explainable, Audited, Accountable' post describes its explainability approach (every recommendation includes job-related evidence and logged signals) and maps the system to the EU AI Act and three US laws, but stops short of a formal model card or technical pack.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No model/system card, Article 11 technical documentation pack, instructions-for-use, or ISO 42001 certification was found on tezi.ai, the blog, or the security.tezi.ai trust center.
Bias Audit Transparency
2 items83
- Audit reportCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Public Warden AI assurance dashboard for Tezi's AI resume screening shows a monthly-audited system, latest audit dated Nov 7, 2025, 15,048-candidate sample, 84 'Clear' / 0 'Consider' / 0 'Concern' across protected classes, with a downloadable summary report and mapping to NYC LL 144, Colorado SB 205, EU AI Act, and CA FEHA.
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Tezi states Warden AI tests its agents across eighteen protected-class dimensions every month and reports no measured bias on the audited use cases (application review and chat screening).
FRIA Support
2 items38
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
The anti-bias post discusses the EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) and Colorado SB 205 developer/deployer duties, functioning as a partial trust package, but offers no Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment template or deployer guidance.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No FRIA template, Article 27 guidance, or deployer compliance checklist was found on tezi.ai, the blog, or security.tezi.ai.
Data Governance Disclosure
2 items55
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Tezi states its agents are 'blind by design' to gender, race, ethnicity, profile photos, and names, intentionally engineering away inputs that shouldn't influence hiring.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
A Tezi Trust Center exists at security.tezi.ai; Tezi's own materials reference SOC 2 Type II and CCPA compliance and that it does not train models on customer data, though the underlying reports appear gated rather than openly downloadable (page is JS-rendered and shows only a title to non-interactive fetches).
Human Oversight Design
2 items63
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Tezi states plainly that 'our agents do not make advance/reject decisions. They recommend; people decide,' and that every recommendation includes job-related evidence, rationale, and logged signals showing which factors mattered.
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Tezi's product post emphasizes that recruiting requires ongoing human oversight, positioning Max as filtering/recommending rather than autonomously rejecting candidates.
https://blog.tezi.ai/p/the-future-of-recruiting-is-now-tezis
Post-Market Monitoring
2 items58
- Audit reportCaptured Jun 7, 2026
The Warden AI dashboard provides ongoing monthly monitoring of Tezi's screening system with dated results, serving as a public continuous-monitoring surface.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
A trust center at security.tezi.ai provides a security/compliance surface, though no public incident-disclosure channel or model-update changelog was found.
Customer Documentation
2 items50
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Tezi maintains a public compliance/anti-bias explainer that doubles as deployer-facing guidance on its NYC LL 144, Colorado SB 205, CA FEHA, and EU AI Act posture, plus a public Warden AI audit center link.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Several product and legal pages now 404 (e.g. tezi.ai/for-operators and tezi.ai/customer-terms), and no openly downloadable DPA or NYC LL 144 candidate-notice template was found, consistent with the product winding down after Headway acquired the Tezi team (announced March 31, 2026).
Editorial notes
Company overview
Tezi, Inc. is a Menlo Park, California startup founded in 2024 by ex-Thumbtack leaders Raghavendra Prabhu and Jason James. Its product, Max, is marketed as the first fully autonomous AI recruiter, handling end-to-end sourcing, application screening, candidate chat, and interview scheduling, with integrations into ATS platforms (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) and calendars. The company raised a $9M seed round in July 2024 led by 8VC and Audacious Ventures. In a notable development, Headway (a mental-health-care platform) announced on March 31, 2026 that it had acquired the team behind Tezi, with cofounder Prabhu joining Headway as VP of Engineering; consistent with this, several Tezi product and legal pages (for-operators, customer-terms) now return 404, suggesting the recruiting product is being wound down even though the blog, trust center, and bias-audit dashboard remain live.
Regulatory exposure
Tezi's screening agent is a clear high-risk use case under the EU AI Act (Annex III employment) and is directly in scope for NYC Local Law 144, Colorado SB 205, and California FEHA. Tezi is unusually proactive here: it publicly maps its system to all four regimes and commissioned Warden AI to run a continuous monthly bias audit whose results are exposed on a public dashboard. Its strongest compliance posture is the human-oversight framing (agents recommend, people decide; agents are blind by design to protected-class signals) and continuous post-market monitoring. The main gaps are formal EU AI Act deployer artifacts: there is no published FRIA template, no Article 11-style technical documentation pack, model card, or ISO 42001, and the trust-center/SOC 2 materials appear gated rather than openly downloadable.
Path to a higher score
Tezi already clears the bar most peers miss (a public, continuously updated third-party bias audit and an explicit human-in-the-loop statement). To raise its score it would publish an Article 11-style technical documentation pack or model/system card with an explainability statement, release deployer-facing EU AI Act guidance including a FRIA template and a per-jurisdiction compliance kit (NYC LL 144 candidate-notice language, Colorado SB 205 impact-assessment support), make its SOC 2 Type II report and a DPA openly available, and document a data-exclusion list and post-market incident channel. The practical obstacle is the Headway acquisition: with the team absorbed into mental-health work and product pages going dark, further compliance investment in the recruiting product looks unlikely.
Regulatory frame
What applies to screening AI.
Treated as high-risk under Annex III §4 when the screening output is decisive. EU AI Act Article 13 transparency obligations apply; deployers must give candidates a way to contest.
Compare
Tezi against its nearest-scoring peers.
The closest scores in Screening AI, side by side.
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Ranking
Others rated in Screening AI
Ranked 10 of 160 by weighted total under rubric v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.
- #7HeyMilo61D
- #8Braintrust AIR59F
- #9Sense58F
- #10TeziThis profile58F
- #11Findem58F
- #12Dayforce57F
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