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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Tengai: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tengai/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tengai/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tengai.md",
  "title": "Tengai: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Tengai is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 30, 2026.",
  "period": "Sept. 17 to 30, 2026",
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    "site": "https://tengai.io/",
    "summary": "\"Automatic Shortlists. Faster Candidate Screening.\" Tengai is a Swedish AI interviewer: an AI avatar interviews candidates at any hour and replaces CV screening and phone screens, with questions built on the Five-Factor personality model. Recruiters get a ranked shortlist with competency data; the vendor says the AI never makes a decision. Buyers are Nordic employers, agencies and public bodies such as SEB, DNB, Adecco, Byggmax and several Swedish municipalities.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Automatic Shortlists. Faster Candidate Screening.\" Tengai is a Swedish AI interviewer: an AI avatar interviews candidates at any hour and replaces CV screening and phone screens, with questions built on the Five-Factor personality model. Recruiters get a ranked shortlist with competency data; the vendor says the AI never makes a decision. Buyers are Nordic employers, agencies and public bodies such as SEB, DNB, Adecco, Byggmax and several Swedish municipalities.",
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      "name": "tengai.io",
      "url": "https://tengai.io/"
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      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-tengai",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Tengai",
      "site": "https://tengai.io/",
      "category": "AI interviewers and screening",
      "what": "\"Automatic Shortlists. Faster Candidate Screening.\" Tengai is a Swedish AI interviewer: an AI avatar interviews candidates at any hour and replaces CV screening and phone screens, with questions built on the Five-Factor personality model. Recruiters get a ranked shortlist with competency data; the vendor says the AI never makes a decision. Buyers are Nordic employers, agencies and public bodies such as SEB, DNB, Adecco, Byggmax and several Swedish municipalities.",
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        "name": "tengai.io",
        "url": "https://tengai.io/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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          "AI assessments"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Disclosed customer base (SEB, DNB, Adecco, Byggmax, Swedish municipalities); 20,291 Swedish AI interviews Jan 2025 to Sep 2026)",
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        {
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        {
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          "url": "https://tengai.io/news/"
        },
        {
          "name": "tengai.io",
          "url": "https://tengai.io/blog/tengai-4.0-structured-flexible-screening"
        },
        {
          "name": "tengai.io",
          "url": "https://tengai.io/blog/four-in-ten-ai-interviews-in-sweden-happen-outside-office-hours"
        },
        {
          "name": "tengai.io",
          "url": "https://tengai.io/blog/byggmax-ran-automated-screening-interviews"
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tengai/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-09-30",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Tengai data: 44% of Swedish AI interviews happen outside office hours",
      "summary": "Tengai analysed 20,291 Swedish screening AI interviews from Jan 2025 to Sep 2026 and found 44 percent started before 8 a.m., from 5 p.m. or on weekends.",
      "kind": "Research",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-tengai"
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        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://tengai.io/blog/four-in-ten-ai-interviews-in-sweden-happen-outside-office-hours"
      }
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tengai/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-09-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Tengai 4.0 gives recruiters control over AI screening interviews",
      "summary": "Tengai 4.0 adds a modular interview builder, mid-process edits with logging, automatic translation into four languages, questions suggested from an uploaded requirements profile and auditable, explainable scoring.",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
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        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://tengai.io/blog/tengai-4.0-structured-flexible-screening"
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