§ The result
Textkernel leads Recruitly by 10 points.
Textkernel sits 10 points above Recruitly under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 41 — with Textkernel filed under Sourcing and Recruitly under ATS-integrated. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Textkernel, with 1 level: Textkernel is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruitly on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruitly 15, Textkernel 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 65% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
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
Recruitly 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 | Recruitly | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AE | NL |
| Founded | 2015 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Textkernel 55
7.2 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · Textkernel 55
2.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Textkernel 55
1.5 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Textkernel 40
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · Textkernel 32
0.4 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 55 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 51 (F) | -10 | -10.0 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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