§ The result
Plum leads Recruit CRM by 14 points.
Plum sits 14 points above Recruit CRM under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 40 — with Plum filed under Assessment and Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated. Plum and Recruit CRM each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Plum holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Plum 83, Recruit CRM 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 69% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Plum is filed under Assessment AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Plum is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Plum | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2012 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Plum 83 · Recruit CRM 20
11.3 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Plum 58 · Recruit CRM 34
4.8 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Plum 28 · Recruit CRM 34
0.9 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Plum 52 · Recruit CRM 58
0.7 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Plum 36 · Recruit CRM 42
0.7 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Plum 63 · Recruit CRM 60
0.2 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +14.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Plum | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 34 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 20 | +63 | +11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 34 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 54 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 42 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 40 (F) | +14 | +14.0 |
§ 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 | Plum | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Plum has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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