§ The result
3 points separate Cezanne Recruitment and Alooba.
Cezanne Recruitment (ATS-integrated) edges Alooba (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 41 to 38. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of Cezanne Recruitment, with 2 level: Cezanne Recruitment is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and Alooba on Customer Documentation. One criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, is both the widest raw gap (Alooba 45, Cezanne Recruitment 54) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Cezanne Recruitment holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
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
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Cezanne Recruitment 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 Alooba is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
1.3 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
1.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.1 weighted points to Alooba
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 24 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 44 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 41 (F) | -3 | -2.9 |
§ 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 | Alooba | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Cezanne Recruitment has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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