Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HiredScore vs Textkernel
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore takes the total, Textkernel takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, HiredScore and Textkernel finish 1 point apart, 52 to 51, as two Sourcing entries. Textkernel leads more of the criteria, 3 against 1 for HiredScore, yet HiredScore takes Article 11 Technical Documentation, which carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiredScore 65, Textkernel 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 100% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HiredScore1
- Textkernel3
- Level3
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation65 vs 55
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HiredScore and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of
Only Textkernel is in scope of
| Record | HiredScore | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2012 | 2001 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight65% of the movement so far
HiredScore65Textkernel552.0 weighted points to HiredScore
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight85% of the movement so far
HiredScore35Textkernel400.6 weighted points to Textkernel
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight95% of the movement so far
HiredScore30Textkernel320.3 weighted points to Textkernel
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HiredScore60Textkernel620.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.9.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Textkernel, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 55 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52F | 51F | +1 | +0.9 |
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 | HiredScore | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 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 HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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