§ The result
Plum leads Recruiterflow by 18 points.
Plum finishes 18 points clear of Recruiterflow under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 36 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Plum leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruiterflow leads 2, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Plum 83, Recruiterflow 18) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 61% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 5 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
Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies and executive search firms. Its AIRA AI layer ranks candidates already in a firm's database against each job with an explainable 0–100 Criteria Score (AIRA Matchmaker, shown as the 'AI Matches' card), and adds natural-language candidate search, external profile sourcing and an AI call notetaker that fills in interview scorecards.
§ The record
Plum is filed under Assessment AI, Recruiterflow 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 | Recruiterflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Plum 83 · Recruiterflow 18
11.7 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Plum 58 · Recruiterflow 33
5.0 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Plum 54 · Recruiterflow 44
1.5 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Plum 52 · Recruiterflow 58
0.7 weighted points to Recruiterflow
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Plum 63 · Recruiterflow 56
0.6 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Plum 36 · Recruiterflow 33
0.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Plum 28 · Recruiterflow 30
0.3 weighted points to Recruiterflow
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus Recruiterflow.
| Category | Weight | Plum | Recruiterflow | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 33 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 18 | +65 | +11.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 44 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 33 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 56 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 36 (F) | +18 | +18.1 |
§ 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 | Plum | Recruiterflow | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | 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; Recruiterflow has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Recruiterflow, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruiterflow last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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