§ The result
Plum leads hireEZ by 12 points.
Plum sits 12 points above hireEZ under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 42 — with Plum filed under Assessment and hireEZ under Sourcing. Plum leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while hireEZ leads 3, including Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hireEZ 30, Plum 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
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
hireEZ 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, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Plum is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | hireEZ | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Plum 83
9.5 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · Plum 58
4.0 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · Plum 54
0.9 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Plum 52
0.7 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · Plum 28
0.4 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · Plum 63
0.4 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hireEZ 38 · Plum 36
0.2 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 58 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 83 | -53 | -9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 36 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 54 (F) | -12 | -12.5 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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