§ The result
Textkernel leads Moonhub on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel finishes 21 points clear of Moonhub inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 51 against 30. Textkernel leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Moonhub leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Moonhub 18, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Moonhub
Moonhub is an AI recruiting platform whose agents (Qualify AI, Engage AI, Monitor AI) search, score, outreach to, and engage candidates across more than a billion public and proprietary profiles, working alongside human expert recruiters who vet candidates before presenting them.
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
Moonhub 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 | Moonhub | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2022 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Moonhub 18 · Textkernel 55
6.7 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Moonhub 30 · Textkernel 55
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Moonhub 40 · Textkernel 55
2.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Moonhub 22 · Textkernel 40
2.2 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Moonhub 38 · Textkernel 62
1.9 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Moonhub 48 · Textkernel 60
1.4 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Moonhub 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Moonhub minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Moonhub | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 55 | -37 | -6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 62 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 51 (F) | -21 | -20.5 |
§ 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 | Moonhub | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Moonhub has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 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 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Moonhub, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Moonhub last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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