§ The result
2 points separate Tribepad and Plum.
Tribepad (ATS-integrated) edges Plum (Assessment) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 54. Tribepad leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Plum leads 3, including Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Plum 36, Tribepad 54) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 62% of the weighted advantage Tribepad 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
Tribepad
Tribepad is a UK applicant tracking system whose built-in Sidekick AI assistant scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted skills and generates candidate summaries, SWOT analyses, job descriptions, salary suggestions and interview questions.
§ The record
Plum is filed under Assessment AI, Tribepad 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 | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Plum 36 · Tribepad 54
2.2 weighted points to Tribepad
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Plum 83 · Tribepad 78
0.9 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Plum 52 · Tribepad 58
0.7 weighted points to Tribepad
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Plum 58 · Tribepad 56
0.4 weighted points to Plum
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Plum 63 · Tribepad 58
0.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Plum 28 · Tribepad 30
0.3 weighted points to Tribepad
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Plum 54 · Tribepad 56
0.3 weighted points to Tribepad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Plum minus Tribepad.
| Category | Weight | Plum | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 78 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 54 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 56 (F) | -2 | -1.8 |
§ 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 | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 4 | 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; Tribepad has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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