§ The result
Alva Labs leads Keka on all 7 criteria.
Alva Labs finishes 24 points clear of Keka under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 37 (F) — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Alva Labs takes all 7 criteria and Keka none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Alva Labs 38 to Keka 30. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Alva Labs 78, Keka 30, 20% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
Vendor profile
Keka
Keka is an HR and payroll suite whose Keka Hire ATS scores each applicant against recruiter-defined role requirements and runs an AI screening conversation that decides which candidates reach the shortlist.
§ The record
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, Keka under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Alva Labs is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Keka |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | SE | IN |
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alva Labs 78 · Keka 30
9.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alva Labs 58 · Keka 20
6.8 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Keka 50
2.7 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Keka 50
1.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Keka 40
1.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alva Labs 38 · Keka 30
1.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Keka 55
1.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +24.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Keka.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Keka | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 30 | +48 | +9.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 20 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 50 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 37 (F) | +24 | +24.4 |
§ 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 | Alva Labs | Keka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Keka has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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