§ The result
ADP leads Cezanne Recruitment by 7 points.
ADP finishes 7 points ahead of Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0, 48 to 41, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. ADP leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cezanne Recruitment leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 46, Cezanne Recruitment 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
Cezanne Recruitment
Cezanne Recruitment (formerly Occupop) is an applicant tracking system for SMEs that handles job posting, candidate management and interview scheduling. In its Recruitment PLUS+ tier it uses AI to score each CV from 0 to 100 against the job description, alongside weighted screening-question scores, knockout filters and optional AI anonymisation of CVs for hiring-manager review.
§ The record
ADP and Cezanne Recruitment are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1949 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
4.0 weighted points to ADP
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
2.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
0.4 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.1 weighted points to ADP
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.1 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 40 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 24 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 54 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 44 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 41 (F) | +7 | +6.9 |
§ 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 | ADP | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Cezanne Recruitment has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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