§ The result
Textkernel leads Avionté by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Textkernel, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 51 and Avionté, filed under ATS-integrated, on 45, 6 points apart. The criteria split evenly, 2 each to Avionté and Textkernel, with 3 level, and the weighted points on the side Textkernel holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Avionté 22, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 86% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avionté
AviontéBOLD is a front- and back-office platform for staffing agencies (ATS/CRM, onboarding, payroll and billing): its AI Matching Agent ranks candidates already in an agency's database for each job, and its Claude-powered PIXEL chatbot pre-screens and scores applicants.
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
Avionté is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Avionté | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2005 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avionté 22 · Textkernel 55
5.9 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avionté 50 · Textkernel 55
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avionté 45 · Textkernel 40
0.6 weighted points to Avionté
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avionté 35 · Textkernel 32
0.4 weighted points to Avionté
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -5.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avionté minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Avionté | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 51 (F) | -6 | -5.9 |
§ 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 | Avionté | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Avionté has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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; some documentation or audit rows for Avionté sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Avionté, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avionté last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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