# Tengai: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tengai/
Covers: Sept. 17 to 30, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Tengai: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tengai/, updated 2026-11-11

> Tengai is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 30, 2026.

"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. Source: [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/).

## Facts

- Site: [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/)
- Category: AI interviewers and screening
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-tengai)

"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. Source: [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/).

- Category: AI interviewers and screening
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: AI interviews and AI assessments
- 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)

Sources: [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/), [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/news/), [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/blog/tengai-4.0-structured-flexible-screening), [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/blog/four-in-ten-ai-interviews-in-sweden-happen-outside-office-hours) and [tengai.io](https://tengai.io/blog/byggmax-ran-automated-screening-interviews).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Tengai data: 44% of Swedish AI interviews happen outside office hours

Research, Sept. 30, 2026. 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.

Source: [Vendor blog](https://tengai.io/blog/four-in-ten-ai-interviews-in-sweden-happen-outside-office-hours). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-tengai).

### Tengai 4.0 gives recruiters control over AI screening interviews

Launch, Sept. 17, 2026. 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.

Source: [Vendor blog](https://tengai.io/blog/tengai-4.0-structured-flexible-screening). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-tengai).

## Methodology and corrections

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