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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.

HireAIScore rates Keka 37 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed September 25, 2026. Keka ranks 70 of 77 vendors rated in ATS-integrated AI, against a category average of 47. That score is drawn from 35 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Keka — 28 with a cited source, 7 recording that nothing was located.

§ 01 - Company facts

Legal name
Keka Technologies Private Limited
Founded
2014
Headquarters
India · IN
Pricing tier
Low
Market side
Employer-side (AEDT)
Categories
ATS-integratedScreening
Website
keka.com

These are company details, not findings. They are editable by a verified representative and carry no weight in the score, which is built only from the cited evidence below.

§ 02 - Score breakdown

§ Score breakdown

Category scoring

Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.

  1. 01

    Article 11 Technical Documentation

    Weight 20%

    30

    +6.0 · category avg 51

  2. 02

    Bias Audit Transparency

    Weight 18%

    20

    +3.6 · category avg 41

  3. 03

    FRIA Support

    Weight 15%

    30

    +4.5 · category avg 32

  4. 04

    Data Governance Disclosure

    Weight 15%

    50

    +7.5 · category avg 54

  5. 05

    Human Oversight Design

    Weight 12%

    50

    +6.0 · category avg 57

  6. 06

    Post-Market Monitoring

    Weight 12%

    40

    +4.8 · category avg 42

  7. 07

    Customer Documentation

    Weight 8%

    55

    +4.4 · category avg 59

Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 77 ATS-integrated AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.

Total weighted score: 36.8(rounded to 37 for display)

§ 03 - Strongest · weakest

Strongest category

Customer Documentation

Raw score 55 · contributes 4.4 to total.

55 against a 59 category average

Weakest category

Bias Audit Transparency

Raw score 20 · contributes 3.6 to total.

20 against a 41 category average

§ 04 - Cited evidence

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§ Evidence

Cited per category

Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence.

Evidence ledger

Items
35
Documentation
23
Public statement
5
Absence
7
With a source URL
28 of 35
Source hostnames
3
Fewest items
3
Article 11 Technical Documentation

These figures measure how thoroughly Keka was reviewed, not how Keka performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.

Article 11 Technical Documentation

3 items30
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka's help-center article on Candidate Profile Score lists the scoring inputs (job profile, skills, experience, educational degree, previous organization), per-job weight sliders and a per-parameter breakdown on hover, but gives no model, accuracy or limitation details.

    https://help.keka.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/39837915962897.json

  • Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The Keka AI page lists governance commitments (role-based access, logged interactions, source citations, human confirmation before any action, no training of external models) but gives no technical documentation of the hiring models.

    https://www.keka.com/keka-ai

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Searches of Keka's product, security, legal and llm-info pages, 181 hiring and AI pages from its 3,245-URL sitemap, and all 118 public Keka Hire help-center articles found no model or system card, explainability statement, AI principles or policy page, ISO 42001 certificate, or documentation of the AI screener.

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Bias Audit Transparency

4 items20
  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No NYC Local Law 144 audit summary, independent audit (BABL AI, DCI, ORCAA, Warden AI, Holistic AI, Credo AI, ConductorAI) or internal adverse-impact result for the resume scoring or AI screener was found: 181 crawled keka.com hiring and AI pages never mention Local Law 144, AEDTs, bias audits or adverse impact, and trust.warden-ai.com/keka returns 404.

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  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The profile-score article claims the scores make shortlisting fairer and more consistent without citing any testing, and its own example raises scores for candidates from Google, Apple and Microsoft.

    https://help.keka.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/39837915962897.json

  • Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka's AI-in-recruitment bias guide (published Sep 2024, updated Aug 2026) urges internal audits, model cards and vendor transparency, none of which Keka publishes for its own scoring tools.

    https://www.keka.com/blog/ai-in-recruitment-uncovering-the-hidden-bias

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka Hire can collect EEO demographic data and produce all-candidate and per-job EEO reports, which give employers raw material for their own analysis but are not an audit and show no selection rates or impact ratios.

    https://help.keka.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/39946790022033.json

FRIA Support

3 items30
  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No EU AI Act Article 27 FRIA template, AI Act deployer guidance or high-risk instructions for use were found in Keka's DPA, privacy policy, terms, security page, the sitemap-wide crawl of hiring and AI pages, or the public help center.

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  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka's DPA (updated 28 January 2026) commits it to help customers with GDPR DPIAs and data-subject requests and to give them Trust Vault access to security documentation, but contains no AI Act content.

    https://www.keka.com/data-protection-addendum

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Clause 14.2 of Keka's terms (updated 10 April 2026) excludes Keka's liability for any claim about the accuracy, reliability or legality of its AI tool's outputs.

    https://www.keka.com/terms-of-services

Data Governance Disclosure

6 items50
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The DPA states Keka is ISO 27001:2022 certified and assessed against SOC 2 Type II, and sets out 72-hour breach notice, per-tenant hosting regions (Central India, North Europe, Central US, Southeast Asia, UAE) and technical and organisational measures.

    https://www.keka.com/data-protection-addendum

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The privacy policy says Keka processes candidates' resumes, application answers, interview notes and evaluations as a processor for the employer, with resumes parsed by a third-party sub-processor.

    https://www.keka.com/privacy-policy

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka's sub-processor list names 17 providers, including RChilli for resume parsing, and promises notice before material additions, but names no LLM provider.

    https://www.keka.com/sub-processors

  • Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The Keka AI page says customer data never trains external models and that the AI only surfaces data the user's existing role permissions allow.

    https://www.keka.com/keka-ai

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka's security page describes Azure and AWS hosting, TLS encryption, third-party penetration tests several times a year, and a 12-hour RPO and 1-hour-35-minute RTO.

    https://www.keka.com/security

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No disclosure of the AI screener's model, its training data or excluded protected attributes, and no ISO 42001 certification, was found on Keka's AI, product, security or legal pages or in its help center.

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Human Oversight Design

8 items50

Post-Market Monitoring

4 items40
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka runs a public Better Stack status page with 56 components, including an ATS component with 90-day uptime in each of its six hosting regions (three Central India, North Europe, UAE North, Central US).

    https://status.keka.com/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The status feed logs dated incidents with subscriber notifications, such as five partial outages in August 2026, but publishes no postmortems or root-cause write-ups.

    https://status.keka.com/index.json

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Keka's DPA commits it to notify customers of a personal-data breach without undue delay and within 72 hours, with details of scope, likely consequences and mitigation.

    https://www.keka.com/data-protection-addendum

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No security.txt, vulnerability-disclosure or bug-bounty channel was found (www.keka.com/.well-known/security.txt and /responsible-disclosure return 404), and there is no AI model-update changelog or fairness or model-drift monitoring surface.

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Customer Documentation

7 items55

§ 05 - Editorial notes

Company overview

Keka Technologies was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hyderabad. It sells PeopleOS, a per-employee-priced HR, payroll and talent suite used by more than 10,000 companies across India, the Middle East, APAC and the US. Keka entered the US in 2024 and lists offices in Portland, New York and San Francisco. Keka Hire scores each application as it arrives. Its help center describes the score as a recruiter-weighted match on job profile, skills, experience, educational degree and previous organization. An AI screener then holds a first conversation with every applicant, and only those who pass reach the shortlist. Keka also sells AI interview scoring and an AI notetaker that records and summarises interviews. Its AI also drafts job descriptions, interview questions and feedback summaries.

Regulatory exposure

Keka's resume scoring and knockout AI screener are the kind of tools NYC Local Law 144 treats as automated employment decision tools. NYC employers using them need an annual independent bias audit with a published summary, plus candidate notice. Keka lists a New York office but publishes no audit. DCWP has promised tougher enforcement after a December 2025 State Comptroller audit found it ineffective. Illinois has required notice of AI use in employment decisions since 1 January 2026. California's FEHA automated-decision rules have applied since 1 October 2025, with four-year record retention. Weighting previous employer and degree could expose employers under both states' rules if it produces adverse impact. Colorado's SB 26-189 disclosure duties and California's CPPA ADMT rules begin on 1 January 2027. Keka offers EU hosting in North Europe, and EU use would be Annex III high-risk under the AI Act, with obligations deferred to 2 December 2027. Keka's terms exclude liability for AI outputs, so the compliance burden sits with employers.

Path to a higher score

The biggest gain would come from a yearly independent bias audit of both the resume scoring and the AI screener, with published impact ratios. Keka should document the screener publicly: what it asks, how pass or fail is decided, and which model and LLM provider it uses. That provider belongs on the sub-processor list. Adding a human-review or override step for screener rejections would lift oversight. So would candidate-notice templates for NYC, Illinois, Colorado and California, and an EU AI Act deployer pack with FRIA support. Keka could also extend its audit logs to Hire, publish an AI model changelog and a vulnerability-disclosure channel, and add AI hiring laws to its own US state hiring-law guides.

§ Regulatory frame

What applies to ats-integrated ai.

Ranking features are inside EU AI Act Annex III §4 (high-risk) and inside NYC Local Law 144 when they affect NYC-based candidates. Customers should treat the AI surface as a distinct deployer-FRIA scope from the rest of the ATS.

Keep reading

All ats-integrated vendors→How this score is built→Annex IV section-by-section: what AI hiring vendors must document→What makes a defensible NYC LL 144 bias audit→

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