§ The result
Textkernel leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel finishes 16 points clear of Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 35 — across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Textkernel leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Ceipal 38 to Textkernel 40. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ceipal 20, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Textkernel is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2015 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Textkernel 55
6.3 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Textkernel 55
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Textkernel 60
1.7 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Textkernel 55
1.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Textkernel 62
0.7 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 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 -16.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 55 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 51 (F) | -16 | -16.3 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 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% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next