§ The result
Textkernel leads Adaface on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel sits 12 points above Adaface under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 39 — with Textkernel filed under Sourcing and Adaface under Assessment. Of the 7 criteria Adaface wins none, and the narrowest lead Textkernel holds is on FRIA Support, Adaface 30 to Textkernel 32. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Adaface 22, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Adaface
Adaface runs chatbot-led 'conversational' skills tests for 500+ roles that score candidates automatically as pass, borderline pass or fail on benchmarked scorecards, backed by webcam, screen and IP proctoring and an AI résumé parser.
Vendor profile
Textkernel
Textkernel provides AI-powered CV/resume and job parsing, semantic search, and candidate-job matching technology (including the acquired Sovren engine) embedded inside ATS, job board, and HR systems.
§ The record
Adaface is filed under Assessment AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Adaface is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | NL |
| Founded | 2018 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · Textkernel 55
5.9 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · Textkernel 55
3.4 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · Textkernel 60
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · Textkernel 55
0.4 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Adaface 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Adaface 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · Textkernel 40
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 51 (F) | -12 | -11.8 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Adaface | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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