§ The result
2 points separate Spark Hire and Textkernel.
Spark Hire (Video interview) edges Textkernel (Sourcing) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 53 to 51. Spark Hire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Textkernel leads 2, including FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Spark Hire 62, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
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
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: ATS-integrated and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Spark Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Spark Hire | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2012 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · Textkernel 55
1.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · Textkernel 55
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · Textkernel 55
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Spark Hire 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · Textkernel 60
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · Textkernel 40
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 64 · Textkernel 62
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 51 (F) | +2 | +2.5 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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