§ The result
Plum leads Recruitly by 13 points.
Plum sits 13 points above Recruitly under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 41 — with Plum filed under Assessment and Recruitly under ATS-integrated. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Plum: Plum is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruitly on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Plum 83, Recruitly 15) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 74% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 4 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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Plum is filed under Assessment AI, Recruitly under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Plum is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Plum | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | CA | AE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Plum 83 · Recruitly 15
12.2 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Plum 58 · Recruitly 45
2.6 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Plum 54 · Recruitly 45
1.3 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Plum 36 · Recruitly 45
1.1 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Plum 28 · Recruitly 35
1.1 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Plum 52 · Recruitly 60
1.0 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Plum 63 · Recruitly 58
0.4 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Plum | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 15 | +68 | +12.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 45 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 41 (F) | +13 | +13.5 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | — | 3 | 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 | 6 | 0 | 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 | 32 | 5 | 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; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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