§ The result
Beamery leads Textkernel by 10 points.
Beamery sits 10 points above Textkernel under rubric v1.0, 61 (D) against 51 (F), with both filed under Sourcing. Beamery leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Textkernel leads 3, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Beamery 85, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Beamery holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Beamery
Talent CRM and sourcing platform that maintains a long-lived candidate pipeline, with AI-driven matching and skills inference.
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
Beamery and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Textkernel is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Beamery | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2013 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Beamery 85 · Textkernel 55
5.4 weighted points to Beamery
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Beamery 70 · Textkernel 55
3.0 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Beamery 60 · Textkernel 40
2.4 weighted points to Beamery
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Beamery 60 · Textkernel 55
0.8 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Beamery 55 · Textkernel 60
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Beamery 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Beamery 60 · Textkernel 62
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Beamery minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Beamery | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 55 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 51 (F) | +10 | +10.5 |
§ 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 | Beamery | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Beamery has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Beamery sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Beamery, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Beamery last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next