§ The result
Textkernel leads Equalture on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel scores 51 and Equalture 44 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Equalture is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Textkernel leads is FRIA Support, Equalture 30 to Textkernel 32. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Equalture 40, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Equalture
Equalture is a game-based pre-employment assessment platform whose short browser games measure candidates' cognitive abilities and behavioural tendencies and convert them into a Fit Score ranked against an employer-specific "Success Profile" derived from that employer's own top performers.
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
Equalture 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 Equalture is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Equalture | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | NL |
| Founded | 2018 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Equalture 40 · Textkernel 55
2.7 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Equalture 45 · Textkernel 55
2.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Equalture 50 · Textkernel 60
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Equalture 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Equalture 38 · Textkernel 40
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Equalture 60 · Textkernel 62
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Equalture minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Equalture | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 51 (F) | -7 | -6.6 |
§ 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 | Equalture | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 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% | 3 | 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% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Equalture 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Equalture, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Equalture last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next