§ The result
HiredScore takes the total, Textkernel takes more of the criteria.
Within the Sourcing cohort, HiredScore edges Textkernel by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 52 to 51. Textkernel leads more of the criteria than HiredScore — 3 to 1 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which HiredScore leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to HiredScore. 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.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Textkernel is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| 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.
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Textkernel 55
2.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Textkernel 40
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Textkernel 62
0.2 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.
| 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% | 52 (F) | 51 (F) | +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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§ Where next