§ The result
Plum leads Cappfinity by 14 points.
Plum sits 14 points above Cappfinity under rubric v1.0, 54 against 40, with both filed under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of Plum, with 2 level: Plum is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Cappfinity on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cappfinity 28, Plum 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 65% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
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
Cappfinity and Plum are both filed under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2005 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Plum 83
9.9 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Plum 58
4.4 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Plum 63
0.6 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Plum 54
0.3 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · Plum 36
0.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 58 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 83 | -55 | -9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 36 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 63 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 54 (F) | -14 | -14.9 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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