Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Plum vs Textkernel
Side-by-side scores and evidence under the HireAIScore rubric v1.0. Click a vendor name to jump to the full profile and the cited evidence behind each score.
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
Textkernel
Textkernel provides AI-powered CV/resume and job parsing, semantic search, and candidate-job matching technology (including the acquired Sovren engine) embedded inside ATS, job board, and HR systems.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus Textkernel.
| Category | Weight | Plum | Textkernel | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 55 | +3 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 55 | +28 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 40 | -4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 51 (F) | +3 |
§ Evidence summary
Evidence count
Plum
19 rows across 7 categories
- documentation
- 12
- audit report
- 3
- absence
- 4
Evidence count
Textkernel
18 rows across 7 categories
- documentation
- 10
- absence
- 5
- audit report
- 1
- public statement
- 2