§ The result
Tribepad leads Keka on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Tribepad opens a 19-point lead on Keka, 56 to 37, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Tribepad 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 Tribepad leads is Customer Documentation, Keka 55 to Tribepad 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Keka 20, Tribepad 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds 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
Tribepad
Tribepad is a UK applicant tracking system whose built-in Sidekick AI assistant scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted skills and generates candidate summaries, SWOT analyses, job descriptions, salary suggestions and interview questions.
§ The record
Keka and Tribepad 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.
| Record | Keka | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Tribepad 78
10.4 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Tribepad 56
5.2 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Tribepad 54
1.7 weighted points to Tribepad
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Tribepad 58
1.0 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Tribepad 56
0.9 weighted points to Tribepad
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Tribepad 58
0.2 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -19.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 56 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 78 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 54 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 56 (F) | -19 | -19.4 |
§ 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 | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | 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; Tribepad has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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