§ The result
Textkernel leads RecruitBot on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Both filed under Sourcing, Textkernel and RecruitBot come out 51 and 37 under rubric v1.0, 14 points in favour of Textkernel. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so RecruitBot is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Textkernel leads is FRIA Support, RecruitBot 27 to Textkernel 32. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (RecruitBot 22, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
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
RecruitBot and Textkernel are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Textkernel is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | RecruitBot | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2017 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · Textkernel 55
5.9 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · Textkernel 55
4.4 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · Textkernel 60
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · Textkernel 55
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · Textkernel 32
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · Textkernel 62
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 55 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 32 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 51 (F) | -14 | -13.9 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 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 RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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