§ The result
Textkernel leads Talview on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel scores 51 and Talview 42 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and Video interview cohorts. Textkernel is ahead of Talview on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Article 11 Technical Documentation at Talview 50 to Textkernel 55. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Talview 38, Textkernel 55, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
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
Talview is filed under Video interview AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Talview is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Talview | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2012 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Talview 38 · Textkernel 55
3.1 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Talview 25 · Textkernel 32
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Talview 48 · Textkernel 55
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Talview 50 · Textkernel 55
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Talview 32 · Textkernel 40
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Talview 52 · Textkernel 62
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Talview 55 · Textkernel 60
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 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 -8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Talview minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Talview | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 51 (F) | -9 | -8.5 |
§ 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 | Talview | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 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% | 11 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Talview has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Talview, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Talview last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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