Tengai 4.0: The Next Gen of Hiring Screening, Built for the EU AI Act

Stockholm — Tengai AB, the Swedish Rectech company behind the AI avatar that conducts structured job interviews, unveils Tengai 4.0 today. The update hands recruiters full control to build, edit, and run their own interviews — without giving up an inch of traceability or EU AI Act compliance.

The launch lands as the hiring-tech market splits in two: companies racing to build autonomous AI agents with no real oversight, and legacy assessment tools and chatbots — rigid, and almost impossible to bend to your process. Tengai 4.0 refuses to pick a side. Employers get a process that's both structured and flexible, backed by data they can compare, trust, and defend.

"The market has forced recruiters into a false choice: structure without flexibility, or flexibility without structure. Tengai gives you both," says Mats Edlund, CEO of Tengai. "This launch puts recruiters back in the driver's seat — without losing a single trace of the data that makes their decisions defensible. Compliance shouldn't be an afterthought. With Tengai, every decision is auditable and ready for the EU AI Act, today."

A Modular Interview Builder, Built for Flexibility

Tengai's new modular interview builder puts the full toolkit in the recruiter's hands — competency-based questions, qualifying questions, or any mix in between. Add your own questions, drag them into order, and decide how candidates respond: voice, text, or multiple choice. Bring your own competency framework, too.

Need to change course mid-process? Now you can, instantly. Edit questions, requirements, or personality profiles on a live assignment without losing a single response already collected. Every change is logged automatically, so nothing slips through the audit trail.

It's fast, too. Interviews go from blank page to published in minutes, not days — whether you're hiring for one specialist role or five hundred warehouse shifts.

And when it's time to write the questions, Tengai can suggest them for you, built from the job requirements and checked against anti-discrimination law from the start.

Full Traceability, Ready for the EU AI Act

Tengai has been compliant by design since day one. Tengai 4.0 raises the bar again: every calculation, every algorithm, open to audit. Every score, explainable in detail. Recruiters can walk a hiring manager — or a candidate, or an auditor — through exactly how a ranking came to be. Because the ranking is mechanical, not generative AI. The avatar's only job is the conversation. It never touches the decision.

More From 4.0

Questions translate automatically into Swedish, English, Norwegian, and Danish, voiced by a new, purpose-built Tengai voice. Additional languages will be added upon request. Candidates get feedback on their own personality profile — and can carry their answers into their next application instead of starting over.

About Tengai

Tengai pairs structured interviews with real flexibility and human control, so hiring teams make better decisions, faster. An AI avatar interviews every candidate, around the clock; recruiters set the questions and make the call. Every ranking is mechanical, built on fixed assessment criteria — which means the data holds up: comparable, traceable, defensible. The result: shortlists built on evidence, not gut feel, that cut time-to-hire in half.

Retailers, logistics operators, healthcare providers, staffing firms, and public-sector employers already run their screening on Tengai — including Byggmax, Region Gotland, Vision, TNG, Samhall, and Adecco.

Validated. Compliant. Built for the EU AI Act from the ground up — mechanical ranking, full traceability, data stored in Europe.