§ The result
Dayforce leads Keka on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of Dayforce and Keka comes out 57 to 37 under rubric v1.0, a 20-point lead for Dayforce. Of the 7 criteria Keka wins none, and the narrowest lead Dayforce holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Dayforce 47 to Keka 40. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Dayforce 74, Keka 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
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
Dayforce and Keka are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dayforce | Keka |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 1992 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Keka 30
8.8 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Keka 20
4.0 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Keka 50
2.2 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Keka 50
1.9 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Keka 30
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Keka 55
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Keka 40
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Keka.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Keka | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 30 | +44 | +8.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 50 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 37 (F) | +20 | +20.4 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | Keka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | 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 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Keka has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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