§ The result
Textkernel leads Korn Ferry by 5 points.
Textkernel scores 51 and Korn Ferry 46 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Korn Ferry leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Korn Ferry 52, Textkernel 62) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Korn Ferry 48, Textkernel 55), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
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
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Korn Ferry | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 1969 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Textkernel 55
1.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Textkernel 60
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Textkernel 40
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Textkernel 62
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Textkernel 55
0.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Textkernel 55
0.4 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 51 (F) | -5 | -4.8 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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