§ The result
Plum leads TalentLens by 8 points.
Plum finishes 8 points ahead of TalentLens under rubric v1.0, 54 to 46, both scored as Assessment entries. TalentLens takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Plum, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Plum 83, TalentLens 45 — and at an 18% weight it carries 72% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 5 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
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
§ The record
Plum and TalentLens 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 | TalentLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Plum 83 · TalentLens 45
6.8 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Plum 58 · TalentLens 52
1.2 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Plum 54 · TalentLens 50
0.6 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Plum 52 · TalentLens 57
0.6 weighted points to TalentLens
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Plum 36 · TalentLens 32
0.5 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Plum 63 · TalentLens 58
0.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Plum 28 · TalentLens 30
0.3 weighted points to TalentLens
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.4 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 +8.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus TalentLens.
| Category | Weight | Plum | TalentLens | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 45 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 32 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 46 (F) | +8 | +8.6 |
§ 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 | TalentLens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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 | 24 | 5 | 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; TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TalentLens sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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