§ The result
Textkernel leads Zoho Recruit on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel scores 51 and Zoho Recruit 42 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Textkernel leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Textkernel leads is FRIA Support, Textkernel 32 to Zoho Recruit 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Textkernel 55, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 60% 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Textkernel is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated 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 Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Textkernel | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | NL | IN |
| Founded | 2001 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Textkernel 55 · Zoho Recruit 24
5.6 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Textkernel 55 · Zoho Recruit 45
2.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Textkernel 60 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Textkernel 32 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Textkernel 62 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +9.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Textkernel minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Textkernel | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 24 | +31 | +5.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 42 (F) | +9 | +9.2 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 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 | 10 | 7 | 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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