§ The result
Textkernel leads Toggl Hire on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel sits 14 points above Toggl Hire under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 37 — with Textkernel filed under Sourcing and Toggl Hire under Assessment. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Toggl Hire is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Textkernel leads is FRIA Support, Textkernel 32 to Toggl Hire 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Textkernel 55, Toggl Hire 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 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
Toggl Hire
Toggl Hire is a skills-first hiring platform (now being retired) that screens candidates with auto-graded skills tests, async video interviews and homework assignments, bundled with a lightweight ATS.
§ The record
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Toggl Hire under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Toggl Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Textkernel | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | NL | EE |
| Founded | 2001 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Textkernel 55 · Toggl Hire 20
6.3 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Textkernel 55 · Toggl Hire 30
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Textkernel 60 · Toggl Hire 52
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Textkernel 62 · Toggl Hire 50
1.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Textkernel 40 · Toggl Hire 35
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Textkernel 32 · Toggl Hire 30
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +14.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Toggl Hire.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Toggl Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 30 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 20 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 37 (F) | +14 | +14.1 |
§ 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 | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
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 Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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