§ The result
Textkernel leads Jobvite on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel scores 51 and Jobvite 45 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Jobvite is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Textkernel leads is FRIA Support, Jobvite 30 to Textkernel 32. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Jobvite 38, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Jobvite
Jobvite is an enterprise applicant tracking and talent acquisition suite (part of Employ Inc.) that uses AI for candidate matching, intelligent messaging, and screening, with explanations of why candidates fit a role.
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
Jobvite is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Textkernel 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 | Jobvite | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2006 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Jobvite 38 · Textkernel 55
3.1 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Jobvite 50 · Textkernel 55
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Jobvite 55 · Textkernel 60
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Jobvite 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Jobvite 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Jobvite 38 · Textkernel 40
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 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 -5.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobvite minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Jobvite | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 51 (F) | -6 | -5.5 |
§ 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 | Jobvite | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Jobvite has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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; some documentation or audit rows for Jobvite sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Jobvite, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Jobvite last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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