§ The result
Pinpoint leads Textkernel by 6 points.
Pinpoint scores 57 and Textkernel 51 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Pinpoint leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Textkernel leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pinpoint 72, Textkernel 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
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
Pinpoint 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 | Pinpoint | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | JE | NL |
| Founded | 2017 | 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
Pinpoint 72 · Textkernel 55
3.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pinpoint 42 · Textkernel 55
2.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pinpoint 68 · Textkernel 55
1.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pinpoint 52 · Textkernel 40
1.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pinpoint 38 · Textkernel 32
0.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pinpoint 64 · Textkernel 60
0.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pinpoint 66 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 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 +6.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pinpoint minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Pinpoint | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 55 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 51 (F) | +6 | +6.2 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next