§ The result
Phenom leads Keka by 15 points.
Phenom finishes 15 points clear of Keka under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 37 — across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Phenom, with 1 level: Phenom is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Keka on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Keka 20, Phenom 75) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 4 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
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
Keka is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Phenom under Candidate sourcing 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 | Keka | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Phenom 75
9.9 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Phenom 55
5.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Phenom 60
1.5 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Phenom 60
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Phenom 30
1.2 weighted points to Keka
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · Phenom 25
0.8 weighted points to Keka
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 19.5 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 Keka minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 75 | -55 | -9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 52 (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 | Keka | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 2 | 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; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next