§ The result
Recruit CRM leads Keka on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Recruit CRM holds a 3-point edge over Keka under rubric v1.0, 40 to 37, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Recruit CRM 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 Recruit CRM leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Keka 40 to Recruit CRM 42. The advantage Recruit CRM holds is spread out: Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Keka 50, Recruit CRM 58, 12% weight), yet it supplies only 27% of the weighted points Recruit CRM gains across the 6 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Keka and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Keka is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Keka | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2014 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Recruit CRM 58
1.0 weighted points to Recruit CRM
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Recruit CRM 34
0.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · Recruit CRM 34
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Recruit CRM 54
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Recruit CRM 60
0.4 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Recruit CRM 42
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 40 (F) | -3 | -3.6 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Keka has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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