§ The result
Plum leads HireQuotient by 20 points.
Plum finishes 20 points clear of HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 34 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Plum: Plum is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and HireQuotient on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HireQuotient 18, Plum 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient 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, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | CA |
| Founded | 2021 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Plum 83
11.7 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Plum 58
4.6 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Plum 54
2.1 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Plum 63
1.0 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Plum 28
0.9 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Plum 36
0.7 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Plum 52
0.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -20.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 83 | -65 | -11.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 54 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 36 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 54 (F) | -20 | -20.5 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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