§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Cezanne Recruitment on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Apriora (Alex) finishes 16 points clear of Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 41 — across the Video interview and ATS-integrated cohorts. Apriora (Alex) leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Cezanne Recruitment is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Apriora (Alex) leads is Human Oversight Design, Apriora (Alex) 60 to Cezanne Recruitment 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Apriora (Alex) 83, Cezanne Recruitment 24) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 68% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
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
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Cezanne Recruitment under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Apriora (Alex) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
10.6 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
2.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
1.5 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
0.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 24 | +59 | +10.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 54 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 44 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 41 (F) | +16 | +15.5 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 Apriora (Alex) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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