Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Phenom vs Textkernel
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
Phenom takes the total, Textkernel takes more of the criteria.
Phenom holds a 1-point edge over Textkernel under rubric v1.0, 52 to 51, with both scored in the Sourcing cohort. Textkernel leads more of the criteria than Phenom — 3 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Phenom leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Phenom. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Phenom 75, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 83% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Phenom2
- Textkernel3
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency75 vs 55
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Phenom and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Phenom | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2010 | 2001 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight50% of the movement so far
Phenom75Textkernel553.6 weighted points to Phenom
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight67% of the movement so far
Phenom30Textkernel401.2 weighted points to Textkernel
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight82% of the movement so far
Phenom25Textkernel321.1 weighted points to Textkernel
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight92% of the movement so far
Phenom60Textkernel550.8 weighted points to Phenom
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Phenom55Textkernel620.6 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus Textkernel, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 55 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 52F | 51F | +1 | +1.5 |
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 | Phenom | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 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 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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