§ The result
Textkernel leads HeroHunt.ai on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel finishes 21 points clear of HeroHunt.ai inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 51 against 30. Textkernel leads every one of the 7 criteria, HeroHunt.ai none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, HeroHunt.ai 27 to Textkernel 32. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HeroHunt.ai 10, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Textkernel builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
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
HeroHunt.ai and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | NL |
| Founded | 2021 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Textkernel 55
8.1 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Textkernel 55
7.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Textkernel 55
1.5 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Textkernel 40
1.4 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Textkernel 62
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Textkernel 32
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Textkernel 60
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 55 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 32 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 51 (F) | -21 | -20.5 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | 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% | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 HeroHunt.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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