§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Textkernel by 6 points.
LinkedIn Recruiter scores 57 and Textkernel 51 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the Sourcing cohort. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Textkernel on Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Textkernel 55, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 36% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
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
LinkedIn Recruiter and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2002 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Textkernel 55
2.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Textkernel 40
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Textkernel 55
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Textkernel 55
0.9 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Textkernel 32
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Textkernel 60
0.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Textkernel 62
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 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 +5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 55 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 51 (F) | +6 | +5.8 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 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 LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next