§ The result
Plum leads HeroHunt.ai by 24 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Plum (Assessment) opens a 24-point lead on HeroHunt.ai (Sourcing), 54 to 30. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Plum: Plum is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and HeroHunt.ai on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HeroHunt.ai 10, Plum 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
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
HeroHunt.ai 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 | HeroHunt.ai | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | CA |
| Founded | 2021 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Plum 83
13.1 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Plum 58
7.6 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Plum 54
1.3 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Plum 63
1.2 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Plum 36
1.0 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Plum 52
0.4 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Plum 28
0.1 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -24.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -24 beside that -24.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 58 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 83 | -73 | -13.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 28 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 36 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 63 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 54 (F) | -24 | -24.0 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 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 domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 HeroHunt.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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