§ The result
Textkernel leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Textkernel finishes 17 points clear of Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 34 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Textkernel leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Textkernel 32 to Zappyhire 25. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Textkernel 55, Zappyhire 28) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Textkernel 55, Zappyhire 30), the second being 30% 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Textkernel | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | IN |
| Founded | 2001 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Textkernel 55 · Zappyhire 30
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Textkernel 55 · Zappyhire 28
4.9 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Textkernel 55 · Zappyhire 42
1.9 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Textkernel 40 · Zappyhire 28
1.4 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Textkernel 62 · Zappyhire 45
1.4 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Textkernel 60 · Zappyhire 50
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Textkernel 32 · Zappyhire 25
1.1 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 30 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 28 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 34 (F) | +17 | +16.9 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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