§ The result
Textkernel leads Tengai on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Textkernel, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 51 and Tengai, filed under Screening, on 42, 9 points apart. Textkernel takes all 7 criteria and Tengai none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Tengai 58 to Textkernel 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Tengai 33, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
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
Tengai is filed under Screening AI, Textkernel under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tengai | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SE | NL |
| Founded | 2019 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tengai 33 · Textkernel 55
4.0 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tengai 45 · Textkernel 55
2.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tengai 33 · Textkernel 40
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tengai 50 · Textkernel 55
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tengai 28 · Textkernel 32
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tengai 55 · Textkernel 62
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tengai 58 · Textkernel 60
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 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 -9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tengai minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Tengai | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 55 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 51 (F) | -9 | -9.0 |
§ 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 | Tengai | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 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; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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