§ The result
Keka leads Arena Analytics by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Keka, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 37 and Arena Analytics, filed under Screening, on 32, 5 points apart. Arena Analytics takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for Keka, whose share includes Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Arena Analytics 38, Keka 55) and Human Oversight Design at 12% (Arena Analytics 38, Keka 50), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage Keka holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arena Analytics
Arena scores job applicants, mainly for healthcare and senior-living employers, on how likely they are to show up and stay in a specific role at a specific location, reroutes and sources candidates it rates likely to be retained, and applies the same outcome models to employee flight risk and internal mobility.
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
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Keka under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Arena Analytics is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Keka |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 20% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Keka 50
1.4 weighted points to Keka
12% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Keka 40
1.4 weighted points to Keka
8% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Keka 55
1.4 weighted points to Keka
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Keka 50
1.2 weighted points to Keka
18% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Keka 20
0.9 weighted points to Arena Analytics
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Keka 30
0.8 weighted points to Keka
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Keka.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Keka | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 37 (F) | -5 | -5.3 |
§ 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 | Arena Analytics | Keka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Arena Analytics has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 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 Arena Analytics sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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