§ The result
Textkernel leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Textkernel (Sourcing) opens an 18-point lead on Pulsifi (Assessment), 51 to 33. Textkernel takes all 7 criteria and Pulsifi none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Pulsifi 55 to Textkernel 60. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pulsifi 20, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
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
Pulsifi is filed under Assessment AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | NL |
| Founded | 2017 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · Textkernel 55
6.3 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pulsifi 30 · Textkernel 55
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · Textkernel 55
2.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · Textkernel 40
1.4 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · Textkernel 62
1.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pulsifi 55 · Textkernel 60
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -17.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | 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% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 51 (F) | -18 | -17.9 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | 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% | 3 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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