§ The result
Textkernel leads Dice on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel finishes 15 points clear of Dice inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 51 against 36. Textkernel takes all 7 criteria and Dice none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Dice 55 to Textkernel 60. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Dice 25, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dice
Dice is a US job marketplace and resume database for tech roles, run by DHI Group, whose employer tools use a proprietary skills knowledge graph and machine learning (IntelliSearch) to match, score and rank sourced candidates and applicants against job postings.
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
Dice and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dice | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 1990 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dice 25 · Textkernel 55
5.4 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dice 32 · Textkernel 55
4.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dice 45 · Textkernel 55
1.5 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dice 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dice 50 · Textkernel 62
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dice 55 · Textkernel 60
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dice 35 · Textkernel 40
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dice minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Dice | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 32 | 55 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 55 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 51 (F) | -15 | -14.7 |
§ 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 | Dice | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 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% | 5 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Dice has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 Dice sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Dice, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dice last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next