§ The result
Fuel50 leads Textkernel on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Inside the Sourcing cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Fuel50 on 58 and Textkernel on 51, 7 points apart. Fuel50 leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Textkernel is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 Fuel50 leads is Human Oversight Design, Fuel50 61 to Textkernel 60. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Fuel50 70, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
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
Fuel50 and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Fuel50 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fuel50 | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2011 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fuel50 70 · Textkernel 55
3.0 weighted points to Fuel50
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · Textkernel 55
2.3 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · Textkernel 55
1.3 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · Textkernel 60
0.1 weighted points to Fuel50
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +6.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 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 +6.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 60 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 51 (F) | +7 | +6.8 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 Fuel50 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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