§ The result
Plum leads RippleMatch by 8 points.
Plum scores 54 and RippleMatch 46 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Plum: Plum is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and RippleMatch on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Plum 83, RippleMatch 53) 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
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
§ The record
Plum is filed under Assessment AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing 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 | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Plum 83 · RippleMatch 53
5.4 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Plum 58 · RippleMatch 46
2.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Plum 54 · RippleMatch 50
0.6 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Plum 52 · RippleMatch 57
0.6 weighted points to RippleMatch
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Plum 63 · RippleMatch 60
0.2 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Plum 28 · RippleMatch 27
0.1 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Plum 36 · RippleMatch 37
0.1 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Plum | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 46 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 53 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 27 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 37 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 46 (F) | +8 | +8.1 |
§ 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 | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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