§ The result
HiPeople leads Plum on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople scores 61 (D) and Plum 54 (F) under rubric v1.0 — a 7-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria, Plum none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, HiPeople 84 to Plum 83. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiPeople 60, Plum 36 — and at a 12% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
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
HiPeople and Plum are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | CA |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Plum 36
2.9 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Plum 52
1.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Plum 28
1.1 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Plum 58
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Plum 54
0.6 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Plum 63
0.2 weighted points to HiPeople
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Plum 83
0.2 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 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 +7.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 83 | +1 | +0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 36 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 63 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 54 (F) | +7 | +7.0 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 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 domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 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 HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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