§ The result
Textkernel leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Textkernel (Sourcing) opens an 18-point lead on Emi (Screening), 51 to 33. Textkernel takes all 7 criteria and Emi none of them; the nearest contest is Post-Market Monitoring, Emi 35 to Textkernel 40. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Emi 18, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
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
Emi is filed under Screening AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Emi | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AR | NL |
| Founded | 2017 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Textkernel 55
6.7 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Textkernel 55
5.4 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Textkernel 60
1.9 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Textkernel 55
1.6 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Textkernel 62
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 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 -18.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 55 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 55 | -37 | -6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 60 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 51 (F) | -18 | -18.4 |
§ 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 | Emi | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 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 a separate 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% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 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 Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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