§ The result
Keka leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Keka, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 14 points above Mercor, filed under Screening: 37 against 23 under rubric v1.0. Keka takes all 7 criteria and Mercor none of them; the nearest contest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Keka 30 to Mercor 22. The advantage Keka holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Keka 50, Mercor 22, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 31% of the weighted points Keka gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Keka is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor under Screening 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 Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Keka | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Mercor 22
4.2 weighted points to Keka
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Mercor 20
2.4 weighted points to Keka
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Mercor 10
1.8 weighted points to Keka
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Mercor 22
1.6 weighted points to Keka
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to Keka
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Mercor 40
1.2 weighted points to Keka
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Mercor 42
1.0 weighted points to Keka
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 10 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 22 | +28 | +4.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 20 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 23 (F) | +14 | +13.7 |
§ 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 | Keka | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Keka has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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