§ The result
4 points separate Textkernel and TestGorilla.
Textkernel (Sourcing) edges TestGorilla (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 51 to 47. Textkernel leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while TestGorilla leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — TestGorilla 38, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 68% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
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
TestGorilla 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 TestGorilla is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | TestGorilla | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | NL |
| Founded | 2019 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
TestGorilla 38 · Textkernel 55
3.1 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
TestGorilla 52 · Textkernel 55
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
TestGorilla 58 · Textkernel 62
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
TestGorilla 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
TestGorilla 38 · Textkernel 40
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
TestGorilla 56 · Textkernel 55
0.1 weighted points to TestGorilla
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is TestGorilla minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | TestGorilla | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 51 (F) | -4 | -4.4 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 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 TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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