Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Criteria vs Plum
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Plum takes the total, Criteria takes more of the criteria.
Within the Assessment cohort, Plum edges Criteria by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 54 to 53. Criteria leads more of the criteria than Plum — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Plum leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Plum. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Criteria 48, Plum 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 96% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Criteria5
- Plum2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency48 vs 83
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Criteria and Plum are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Criteria | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2006 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight55% of the movement so far
Criteria48Plum836.3 weighted points to Plum
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight72% of the movement so far
Criteria68Plum582.0 weighted points to Criteria
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight82% of the movement so far
Criteria62Plum541.2 weighted points to Criteria
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight89% of the movement so far
Criteria42Plum360.7 weighted points to Criteria
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight94% of the movement so far
Criteria32Plum280.6 weighted points to Criteria
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
Criteria56Plum520.5 weighted points to Criteria
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Criteria60Plum630.2 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Plum, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 83 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 36 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 53F | 54F | -1 | -1.5 |
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 | Criteria | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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