§ The result
Textkernel leads Cappfinity on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel sits 11 points above Cappfinity under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 40 — with Textkernel filed under Sourcing and Cappfinity under Assessment. Of the 7 criteria Cappfinity wins none, and the narrowest lead Textkernel holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Cappfinity 38 to Textkernel 40. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cappfinity 28, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
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
Cappfinity is filed under Assessment AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cappfinity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cappfinity | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2005 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Textkernel 55
4.9 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Textkernel 55
3.8 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Textkernel 60
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Textkernel 32
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Textkernel 62
0.5 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Textkernel 55
0.4 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 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 -11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 55 | -19 | -3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 55 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 51 (F) | -11 | -11.4 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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 Cappfinity sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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