§ The result
Textkernel leads Canditech on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel sits 12 points above Canditech under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 39 — with Textkernel filed under Sourcing and Canditech under Assessment. Textkernel leads every one of the 7 criteria, Canditech none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Canditech 30 to Textkernel 32. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Canditech 25, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
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
Canditech 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 Canditech is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IL | NL |
| Founded | 2019 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Textkernel 55
5.4 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · Textkernel 55
3.6 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · Textkernel 40
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Textkernel 60
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Textkernel 55
0.4 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 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 -11.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 55 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 55 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 51 (F) | -12 | -11.9 |
§ 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 | Canditech | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next