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Textio
Textio provides AI guidance for inclusive recruiting communications, interview feedback, and performance reviews, serving HR, recruiting, and talent teams.
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›What is Textio?
Textio is an AI platform for recruiting and performance feedback. It analyzes HR documents for bias, tone, clarity, and effectiveness, then provides guidance while people write. Teams can use it on textio.com or extend it into ATS and performance management tools.
›What are the pros and cons of Textio?
Strengths
Uses data from more than 1 billion HR documents, with 10 million new records added monthly, to support its language guidance
Provides feedback while users write instead of relying only on post hoc reporting
Supports recruiting, interview feedback, and performance feedback in one platform
Can place guidance inside several widely used ATS platforms
Focuses on HR-specific language rather than general-purpose writing
Trade-offs
Does not source, screen, schedule, assess, or rank candidates
Public plan details are not available, and third-party reviews describe the pricing as premium enterprise pricing
Its reported gains are incremental, with independent testing citing roughly 15% to 20% better-performing inclusive posts
The value depends on writers and managers consistently acting on its guidance
›What are Textio’s key features?
Real-time guidance for bias, tone, clarity, and inclusive language
Textio Score, gender tone meter, and age graph for evaluating written content
Job-post and recruiting-message analysis based on hiring outcome data
Performance feedback guidance focused on actionable, growth-oriented feedback
Interview feedback tools for aligning questions to job requirements and documenting candidate feedback
Integrations with Greenhouse, Workday, iCIMS, SuccessFactors, Lever, and Oracle
›What are the best use cases for Textio?
Writing and revising job descriptions to reduce biased language
Checking recruiting emails and other candidate communications
Writing performance reviews and manager feedback
Aligning interview questions with job requirements and recording interview feedback
Standardizing inclusive language across recruiting and HR communications
›What is the pricing for Textio?
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›Who is Textio best for?
enterpriseLarge organizations can use Textio to standardize recruiting and performance communications across teams and systems.
recruitersRecruiters get in-the-moment help identifying biased wording in job posts, emails, and interview materials.
HR managersHR managers can use the feedback tools to support more actionable performance reviews and manager accountability.
DEI teamsDEI teams gain language guidance and metrics for reducing bias in HR communications.
Not for
- Teams seeking an applicant tracking system or candidate sourcing, screening, scheduling, assessment, or ranking features should choose a broader recruiting platform.
- Organizations without a plan to adopt writing guidance in daily recruiting and management work may not realize the tool's value.
- Buyers looking for transparent self-serve pricing should look elsewhere because public plan details are unavailable.
›What are the best Textio alternatives?
HireVueChoose this instead if you need AI-driven assessments and video interviewing rather than writing and feedback guidance.→
ManatalChoose this instead if you need an applicant tracking system with AI-driven recruiting workflows.→
PhenomChoose this instead if you need a broader talent experience platform for attracting, engaging, recruiting, and retaining talent.→
Merlin→