§ The result
Textkernel leads Vervoe on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel scores 51 and Vervoe 46 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Textkernel leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Vervoe is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Textkernel leads is Bias Audit Transparency, Textkernel 55 to Vervoe 52. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Textkernel 40, Vervoe 28) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Textkernel 55, Vervoe 45), the second being 37% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 5 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
Vervoe
AI-powered skills-assessment platform that grades and ranks candidates on performance in role-specific, task-based assessments.
§ The record
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Vervoe 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 Vervoe is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Textkernel | Vervoe |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | AU |
| Founded | 2001 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Textkernel 55 · Vervoe 45
2.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Textkernel 40 · Vervoe 28
1.4 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Textkernel 32 · Vervoe 25
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Textkernel 55 · Vervoe 52
0.5 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Textkernel 62 · Vervoe 58
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Vervoe.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Vervoe | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 46 (F) | +5 | +5.3 |
§ 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 | Vervoe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Vervoe has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Vervoe, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vervoe last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next