§ The result
Plum leads Keka by 17 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Plum (Assessment) opens a 17-point lead on Keka (ATS-integrated), 54 to 37. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Plum: Plum is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Keka on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Keka 20, Plum 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 5 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
Plum
Plum is a pre-employment talent assessment platform that uses a Five-Factor (Big Five) psychometric Discovery Survey and a Talent Match model to score and rank candidates on behavioral "durable skills" for role fit, hiring, and development.
§ The record
Keka is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Plum under Assessment 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. Only Plum is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Keka | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Keka 20 · Plum 83
11.3 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Keka 30 · Plum 58
5.6 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Keka 55 · Plum 63
0.6 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Keka 50 · Plum 54
0.6 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Keka 40 · Plum 36
0.5 weighted points to Keka
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Keka 30 · Plum 28
0.3 weighted points to Keka
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Keka 50 · Plum 52
0.2 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Keka minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | Keka | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 58 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 83 | -63 | -11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 36 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 54 (F) | -17 | -17.6 |
§ 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 | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | 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; Plum has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Keka, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Keka last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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