§ The result
Plum leads Covey on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Plum scores 54 and Covey 47 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Plum leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Covey is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Plum leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Covey 52 to Plum 54. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Covey 40, Plum 58 — and at a 20% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Covey
Covey is an AI recruiting platform whose Covey Scout product trains generative-AI bots from plain-language hiring criteria to source, evaluate, and rank candidate profiles for outbound sourcing and inbound applicant screening.
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
Covey is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Plum under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Plum is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Covey | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2018 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Covey 40 · Plum 58
3.6 weighted points to Plum
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Covey 72 · Plum 83
2.0 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Covey 30 · Plum 36
0.7 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Covey 25 · Plum 28
0.4 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Covey 58 · Plum 63
0.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Covey 52 · Plum 54
0.3 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -7.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 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 -7.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Covey minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | Covey | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 83 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 36 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 54 (F) | -7 | -7.5 |
§ 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 | Covey | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 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 Covey sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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