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Tengai 4.0: Structured, Flexible Screening—Recruiters Take the Wheel

Written by Hanna | September 17, 2026

The Screening Interview, Finally Built Around You

Your time. Your questions. Your order. With the 4.0 update, we're handing the wheel to recruiters, who can now build the exact interview a role calls for—in minutes, not days. What hasn't changed: the structured, flexible screening that's always defined Tengai, where every decision can be explained, traced, and defended—fully in line with the EU AI Act.

Tengai 4.0 keeps pushing the product forward and sharpening efficiency, while putting more control in the recruiter's hands. This release is built for one thing: speed without shortcuts. Faster hiring, automation that doesn't cut corners on quality, and a hiring decision that's fair, comparable, and fully traceable.

So, what's new?

A Modular Interview Builder for Real Flexibility 

Our new modular interview builder hands recruiters full control to build complex interviews—competency-based questions, qualification questions, the works.

Interview questions used to be stuck in a template. Not anymore. Recruiters own the entire setup: add your own questions, drag-and-drop the order, and choose the length and format—voice, text, or multiple choice.

Layer in unique questions on top of the standard template to match the role. And it's fast: interviews come together in minutes, not days—whether you're hiring for volume or hunting a needle-in-a-haystack specialist.

Organizations can also upload their own competency framework, so you work with the routines and language you already use—not ours.

Mid-Flight Edits: Real-Time Changes, No Data Lost

When the role changes shape mid-process, recruiters shouldn't have to start from scratch. Now you don't. Adjust questions, requirements, or the personality profile directly within an ongoing process—mid-flight, no restart required. Every change is logged automatically. Candidate pool too narrow? Broaden the requirements in seconds, without losing structure or traceability in the data you've already collected. That's days shaved off time-to-hire. Every time. 

Automatic Translation 

The new version automatically translates every question and template into four languages—Swedish, English, Norwegian, and Danish—without anyone typing the same question twice. Write it once. Tengai handles the rest. 

More Voice Questions 

 Add more voice-based questions, on your terms. Recruiters choose which questions get reviewed manually and whether candidates answer by voice or text—giving candidates a more natural way to respond and recruiters richer material to assess. And no, you don't have to listen to every single answer. Our shortlist automatically surfaces the top performers. No guesswork, no black box—just your best candidates, sorted. 

Bring Your Employer Brand to Life

Tengai now introduces your organization with a dialogue-based employer brand message, built around your company, your values, and your team. It's a conversation, not another chatbot script—giving candidates an actual feel for who you are before they've even met you.

Auto-Generate Interviews from Your Requirements Profile 

This release runs on one obsession: efficiency. Upload your requirements profile, and Tengai suggests relevant interview and screening questions on the spot—questions that already account for anti-discrimination law and the bias traps that are easy to fall into otherwise. A solid draft to fine-tune. Not a blank page to stare at.

A Better Interview Experience with Sharper Candidate Feedback 

Candidates get questions that fit the role, in the format they're comfortable with—voice, multiple choice, or text. They also get clear feedback on what Tengai picked up about their personal traits, so they know exactly how Tengai describes them to the recruiter. And to make job hunting less of a grind, candidates can reuse their interview answers across other processes—which strengthens your employer brand and means more candidates finish the process instead of ghosting it. 

Explainable AI (XAI) and Compliance 

 Tengai was built compliant from day one. We just sharpened it further. Every calculation, every algorithm—fully auditable. Full documentation of how scores add up. Recruiters can explain a ranking to a hiring manager or a candidate with 100% transparency. Full traceability, in line with the EU AI Act. Your IT and legal teams are going to love this one. 

Tengai 4.0 builds on the screening solution recruiters already trust: bias-free, traceable, built to last. Now they get more control and more flexibility to work with their own questions and competency frameworks—while the structure that makes every decision defensible stays exactly where it belongs.

Book a walkthrough of Tengai 4.0, or log in and put the new features to work today.