§ The result
Textkernel leads Turing on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel finishes 15 points clear of Turing under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 36 — across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Textkernel leads every one of the 7 criteria, Turing none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Textkernel 32 to Turing 25. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Textkernel 55, Turing 28, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 7 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
Turing
Turing is an AI-powered talent platform that vets software engineers through automated multi-stage technical assessments and uses machine-learned ranking to score, match, and place them with client companies.
§ The record
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Turing under Assessment 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. Only Turing is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Textkernel | Turing |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2001 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Textkernel 55 · Turing 28
4.9 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Textkernel 55 · Turing 42
2.6 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Textkernel 60 · Turing 45
1.8 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Textkernel 55 · Turing 44
1.6 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Textkernel 40 · Turing 27
1.6 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Textkernel 62 · Turing 48
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Textkernel 32 · Turing 25
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Turing.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Turing | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 28 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 27 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 36 (F) | +15 | +14.6 |
§ 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 | Turing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 8 | 7 | 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; Turing has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 7 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 Turing, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Turing last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next