§ The result
3 points separate Hireology and Plum.
Hireology holds a 3-point edge over Plum under rubric v1.0, 57 to 54, across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Hireology and Plum, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Hireology holds, headed by Post-Market Monitoring, settle the total. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Hireology 59, Plum 36 — and at a 12% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage Hireology holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Hireology
Hireology is an applicant tracking and hiring platform for multi-location auto dealers, healthcare providers and hospitality operators. Its AI features score applicants against employer-defined criteria (AI Match) and run rubric-scored, voice-based first-round screening interviews (AI Interview).
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
Hireology is filed under ATS-integrated 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 | Hireology | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2010 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Hireology 59 · Plum 36
2.8 weighted points to Hireology
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Hireology 50 · Plum 58
1.6 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Hireology 35 · Plum 28
1.1 weighted points to Hireology
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Hireology 57 · Plum 52
0.6 weighted points to Hireology
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Hireology 58 · Plum 63
0.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Hireology 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 +2.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Hireology minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | Hireology | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 83 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 59 | 36 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 54 (F) | +3 | +2.1 |
§ 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 | Hireology | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Hireology has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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; some documentation or audit rows for Hireology sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Hireology, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Hireology last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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