§ The result
Textkernel leads Recruitee on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel scores 51 and Recruitee 42 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Recruitee is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Textkernel leads is Human Oversight Design, Recruitee 58 to Textkernel 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruitee 30, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
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
Recruitee 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 | Recruitee | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | NL |
| Founded | 2015 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitee 30 · Textkernel 55
4.5 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitee 42 · Textkernel 55
2.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitee 27 · Textkernel 32
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitee 52 · Textkernel 55
0.4 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitee 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitee 58 · Textkernel 60
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitee minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Recruitee | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 32 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 51 (F) | -9 | -8.9 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 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 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next