§ The result
PageUp leads Textkernel on all 7 criteria.
PageUp, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above Textkernel, filed under Sourcing: 64 (D) against 51 (F) under rubric v1.0. PageUp takes all 7 criteria and Textkernel none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, PageUp 63 to Textkernel 62. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (PageUp 80, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage PageUp builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
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
PageUp 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 | PageUp | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | NL |
| Founded | 1997 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
PageUp 80 · Textkernel 55
4.5 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
PageUp 74 · Textkernel 55
3.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
PageUp 55 · Textkernel 40
1.8 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
PageUp 40 · Textkernel 32
1.2 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
PageUp 63 · Textkernel 55
1.2 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
PageUp 64 · Textkernel 60
0.5 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
PageUp 63 · Textkernel 62
0.1 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is PageUp minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | PageUp | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 55 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 55 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 51 (F) | +13 | +13.1 |
§ 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 | PageUp | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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