§ The result
Textkernel leads Keka on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Textkernel, filed under Sourcing, comes out 14 points above Keka, filed under ATS-integrated: 51 against 37 under rubric v1.0. Keka is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Textkernel takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Keka 30 to Textkernel 32. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Keka 20, Textkernel 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Textkernel holds across the 6 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
Textkernel
Textkernel provides AI-powered CV/resume and job parsing, semantic search, and candidate-job matching technology (including the acquired Sovren engine) embedded inside ATS, job board, and HR systems.
§ The record
Keka is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Textkernel 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 | Textkernel |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | NL |
| Founded | 2014 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Textkernel 55
6.3 weighted points to Textkernel
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Textkernel 55
5.0 weighted points to Textkernel
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Textkernel 60
1.2 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Textkernel 55
0.8 weighted points to Textkernel
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Textkernel 62
0.6 weighted points to Textkernel
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · Textkernel 32
0.3 weighted points to Textkernel
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -14.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.1 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 -14.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Textkernel | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 51 (F) | -14 | -14.1 |
§ 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 | Textkernel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 5 | 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; Textkernel has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 5 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 Textkernel, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Textkernel last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next