§ The result
Textkernel leads Workstream by 12 points.
Textkernel sits 12 points above Workstream under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 39 — with Textkernel filed under Sourcing and Workstream under Screening. Textkernel leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Workstream leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Textkernel 55, Workstream 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Workstream
Workstream is a mobile-first HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as QSR franchisees. Its hiring suite pairs a text-to-apply applicant tracking system with VoiceAI phone screens and VideoAI asynchronous video interviews, which return transcripts, AI summaries, pass/fail results for each question and match scores.
§ The record
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Workstream under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Workstream is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Textkernel | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2001 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Textkernel 55 · Workstream 20
6.3 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Textkernel 55 · Workstream 40
3.0 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Textkernel 55 · Workstream 47
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Textkernel 32 · Workstream 27
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Textkernel 40 · Workstream 35
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Textkernel 62 · Workstream 56
0.5 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Textkernel 60 · Workstream 61
0.1 weighted points to Workstream
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 20 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 47 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 39 (F) | +12 | +12.2 |
§ 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 | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources 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 | 28 | 6 | Sources 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; Workstream has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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