§ The result
Paylocity leads Keka on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Paylocity scores 43 and Keka 37 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Keka is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Paylocity takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is Post-Market Monitoring, Keka 40 to Paylocity 42. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Keka 30, Paylocity 44 — and at a 20% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
§ The record
Keka and Paylocity 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. Only Paylocity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Keka | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Paylocity 44
2.8 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Paylocity 33
2.3 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Paylocity 54
0.6 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Paylocity 42
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Paylocity 58
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -6.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 44 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 43 (F) | -6 | -6.2 |
§ 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 | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Keka has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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