§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Keka by 19 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI opens a 19-point lead on Keka, 56 to 37, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Keka takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for Workday Recruiting AI, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Keka 30, Workday Recruiting AI 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Keka and Workday Recruiting AI 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 | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
8.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
7.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to Keka
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.9 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 -18.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 60 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 65 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 56 (F) | -19 | -18.7 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 9 | 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next