§ The result
Textkernel leads Retorio on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel scores 51 and Retorio 44 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Textkernel is ahead of Retorio on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being FRIA Support at Retorio 30 to Textkernel 32. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Retorio 40, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Retorio
Video-based AI that analyses words, voice, and facial expression/body language to infer Big Five (OCEAN) personality and behavioural traits.
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
Retorio is filed under Assessment AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Retorio is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Retorio | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | NL |
| Founded | 2018 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Retorio 40 · Textkernel 55
2.7 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Retorio 50 · Textkernel 55
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Retorio 52 · Textkernel 60
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Retorio 50 · Textkernel 62
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Retorio 33 · Textkernel 40
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Retorio 52 · Textkernel 55
0.4 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Retorio 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Retorio minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Retorio | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 51 (F) | -7 | -7.2 |
§ 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 | Retorio | 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next