§ The result
Textkernel leads Loxo on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel sits 14 points above Loxo under rubric v1.0, 51 against 37, with both filed under Sourcing. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Loxo is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Textkernel leads is FRIA Support, Loxo 30 to Textkernel 32. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Loxo 20, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Loxo
Loxo is an AI-native talent-intelligence platform that combines candidate sourcing, a recruiting CRM, and an applicant tracking system, using proprietary ranking models and a self-built talent graph of 800M+ people to source, rank, and match candidates for recruiting and staffing firms.
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
Loxo 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 | Loxo | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2012 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Loxo 20 · Textkernel 55
6.3 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Loxo 30 · Textkernel 55
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Loxo 50 · Textkernel 60
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Loxo 50 · Textkernel 55
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Loxo 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Loxo 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Loxo minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Loxo | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 51 (F) | -14 | -13.9 |
§ 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 | Loxo | 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Loxo has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Loxo, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Loxo last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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