§ The result
Textkernel leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Textkernel (Sourcing) opens a 19-point lead on Arena Analytics (Screening), 51 to 32. Arena Analytics leads none of the 7 criteria, and Textkernel is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arena Analytics 25, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arena Analytics
Arena scores job applicants, mainly for healthcare and senior-living employers, on how likely they are to show up and stay in a specific role at a specific location, reroutes and sources candidates it rates likely to be retained, and applies the same outcome models to employee flight risk and internal mobility.
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
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Arena Analytics is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2015 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Textkernel 55
5.4 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Textkernel 55
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Textkernel 60
2.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Textkernel 55
1.9 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Textkernel 62
1.9 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Textkernel 40
1.4 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 55 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 62 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 51 (F) | -19 | -19.4 |
§ 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 | Arena Analytics | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Arena Analytics has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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