Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Textkernel vs Wellfound
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.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
Wellfound
Wellfound is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform whose wellfound:ai suite auto-generates screening criteria from a job description, then scores and ranks inbound applicants (AI Resume Screening) and surfaces outbound candidates from a talent graph of 10M opt-in Wellfound profiles plus 500M+ enriched external profiles.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Wellfound takes the total, Textkernel takes more of the criteria.
Wellfound holds a 1-point edge over Textkernel under rubric v1.0, 52 to 51, across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Textkernel leads more of the criteria, 5 against 2 for Wellfound, yet Wellfound takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Textkernel 55, Wellfound 82 — and at an 18% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Textkernel5
- Wellfound2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency55 vs 82
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Textkernel | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2001 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight36% of the movement so far
Textkernel55Wellfound824.9 weighted points to Wellfound
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight58% of the movement so far
Textkernel55Wellfound403.0 weighted points to Textkernel
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight75% of the movement so far
Textkernel40Wellfound602.4 weighted points to Wellfound
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight86% of the movement so far
Textkernel55Wellfound451.5 weighted points to Textkernel
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight93% of the movement so far
Textkernel60Wellfound521.0 weighted points to Textkernel
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Textkernel32Wellfound280.6 weighted points to Textkernel
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Textkernel62Wellfound580.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Wellfound, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 82 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 51F | 52F | -1 | -0.9 |
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 | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 22 | 9 | 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; Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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