§ The result
Keka leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
Keka scores 37 and XOR 30 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Keka is ahead of XOR on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Keka 20 to XOR 18. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Keka 30, XOR 20, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage Keka 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Keka is filed under ATS-integrated AI, XOR 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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · XOR 20
2.0 weighted points to Keka
15% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · XOR 42
1.2 weighted points to Keka
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · XOR 40
1.2 weighted points to Keka
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · XOR 33
0.8 weighted points to Keka
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · XOR 25
0.8 weighted points to Keka
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · XOR 48
0.6 weighted points to Keka
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · XOR 18
0.4 weighted points to Keka
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Keka | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 18 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 30 (F) | +7 | +6.9 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Keka has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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