§ The result
Tezi leads Textkernel by 7 points.
Tezi scores 58 and Textkernel 51 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Tezi leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Textkernel leads 2, including Customer Documentation, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Textkernel 55, Tezi 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 60% of the weighted advantage Tezi holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
§ The record
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Textkernel | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2001 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Textkernel 55 · Tezi 83
5.0 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Textkernel 40 · Tezi 58
2.2 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Textkernel 62 · Tezi 50
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Textkernel 32 · Tezi 38
0.9 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Textkernel 55 · Tezi 52
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Textkernel 60 · Tezi 63
0.4 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 83 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 58 (F) | -7 | -6.9 |
§ 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 | Textkernel | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next