§ The result
Textkernel leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel finishes 17 points clear of SeekOut inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 51 against 34. Textkernel leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; SeekOut leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (SeekOut 35, Textkernel 62) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (SeekOut 35, Textkernel 55), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and 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
SeekOut 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 | SeekOut | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2017 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Textkernel 55
4.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SeekOut 35 · Textkernel 55
3.0 weighted points to Textkernel
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SeekOut 40 · Textkernel 55
2.7 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Textkernel 62
2.2 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SeekOut 45 · Textkernel 60
1.8 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SeekOut 25 · Textkernel 40
1.8 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SeekOut 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SeekOut minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | SeekOut | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 55 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 35 | 55 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 35 | 62 | -27 | -2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 51 (F) | -17 | -16.5 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 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% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 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 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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