§ The result
Plum leads Pulsifi by 21 points.
Plum finishes 21 points clear of Pulsifi inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 54 against 33. Plum leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Pulsifi leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Plum 83, Pulsifi 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Plum and Pulsifi 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 | Plum | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | SG |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Plum 83 · Pulsifi 20
11.3 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Plum 58 · Pulsifi 30
5.6 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Plum 54 · Pulsifi 40
2.1 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Plum 63 · Pulsifi 46
1.4 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Plum 36 · Pulsifi 28
1.0 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Plum 28 · Pulsifi 25
0.4 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Plum 52 · Pulsifi 55
0.4 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Plum | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 20 | +63 | +11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 46 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 33 (F) | +21 | +21.5 |
§ 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 | Plum | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Plum has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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