§ The result
4 points separate eSkill and Keka.
eSkill holds a 4-point edge over Keka under rubric v1.0, 41 to 37, across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of eSkill, with 1 level: eSkill is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Keka on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — eSkill 48, Keka 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage eSkill holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
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
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, Keka under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only eSkill is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | eSkill | Keka |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2003 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Keka 30
3.6 weighted points to eSkill
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Keka 20
0.9 weighted points to eSkill
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Keka 50
0.8 weighted points to eSkill
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Keka 40
0.5 weighted points to Keka
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Keka 50
0.4 weighted points to Keka
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Keka 55
0.1 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Keka.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Keka | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 50 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 40 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 37 (F) | +4 | +4.5 |
§ 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 | eSkill | Keka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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; some documentation or audit rows for eSkill 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 eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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