§ The result
HiringBranch leads Keka on 6 of the 7 criteria.
HiringBranch finishes 15 points clear of Keka under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 37 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. HiringBranch leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Keka is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 HiringBranch leads is Human Oversight Design, HiringBranch 52 to Keka 50. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HiringBranch 60, Keka 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
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
HiringBranch 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, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | Keka |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | CA | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Keka 20
7.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Keka 30
6.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Keka 30
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Keka 50
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Keka 55
0.7 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Keka 50
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Keka.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Keka | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 20 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 37 (F) | +15 | +15.7 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | Keka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next