§ The result
Textkernel leads Factorial by 5 points.
Textkernel scores 51 and Factorial 46 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Textkernel leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Factorial leads 3, including Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Factorial 25, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 84% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Factorial
Factorial is a Barcelona-based all-in-one HR, finance and IT platform for small and mid-sized businesses. Its applicant tracking system has optional AI matching, which shows a percentage fit for applicants it recommends interviewing, plus CV summaries, AI-written job posts and AI Calls, where a voice agent phone-screens candidates and gives each a match label that can move them to the next stage automatically.
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
Factorial is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Factorial | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | ES | NL |
| Founded | 2016 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Factorial 25 · Textkernel 55
5.4 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Factorial 48 · Textkernel 40
1.0 weighted points to Factorial
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Factorial 52 · Textkernel 55
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Factorial 35 · Textkernel 32
0.4 weighted points to Factorial
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Factorial 57 · Textkernel 55
0.3 weighted points to Factorial
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Factorial 58 · Textkernel 60
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Factorial 60 · Textkernel 62
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Factorial minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Factorial | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 55 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 51 (F) | -5 | -4.7 |
§ 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 | Factorial | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Factorial has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Factorial, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Factorial last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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