§ The result
Sense leads Keka on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sense (Screening) opens a 21-point lead on Keka (ATS-integrated), 58 to 37. Sense takes all 7 criteria and Keka none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Keka 55 to Sense 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Keka 20, Sense 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 7 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Keka is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sense 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.
| Record | Keka | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Sense 72
9.4 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Sense 60
6.0 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Sense 64
1.7 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Sense 52
1.4 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · Sense 38
1.2 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Sense 58
1.2 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Sense 62
0.6 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -21.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -21.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 72 | -52 | -9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 58 (F) | -21 | -21.4 |
§ 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 | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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