§ The result
Textkernel leads hireEZ by 9 points.
Textkernel scores 51 and hireEZ 42 under rubric v1.0 — a 9-point gap inside the Sourcing cohort. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while hireEZ leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hireEZ 30, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
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
hireEZ and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | hireEZ | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2015 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Textkernel 55
4.5 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · Textkernel 55
3.4 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · Textkernel 55
0.8 weighted points to hireEZ
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Textkernel 60
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hireEZ 38 · Textkernel 40
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 51 (F) | -9 | -9.0 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next