Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs Textkernel
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
Textkernel leads hackajob by 6 points.
Inside the Sourcing cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Textkernel on 51 and hackajob on 45, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Textkernel, with 1 level: Textkernel is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and hackajob on Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (hackajob 20, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 86% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob2
- Textkernel4
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency20 vs 55
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | hackajob | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2014 | 2001 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight72% of the movement so far
hackajob20Textkernel556.3 weighted points to Textkernel
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight83% of the movement so far
hackajob60Textkernel551.0 weighted points to hackajob
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight90% of the movement so far
hackajob55Textkernel600.6 weighted points to Textkernel
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight95% of the movement so far
hackajob58Textkernel550.4 weighted points to hackajob
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight98% of the movement so far
hackajob38Textkernel400.2 weighted points to Textkernel
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob60Textkernel620.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Textkernel, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 51F | -6 | -5.8 |
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 | hackajob | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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