§ The result
3 points separate Avature and Cegid.
Under rubric v1.0, Avature and Cegid finish 3 points apart, 48 to 45, as two ATS-integrated entries. Avature leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cegid leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Avature 40, Cegid 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Avature holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avature
Avature is an enterprise talent acquisition and talent management platform (recruiting CRM, ATS, onboarding and internal mobility) with built-in AI for semantic search, explainable weighted candidate matching and ranking, candidate fraud detection and configurable recruiting agents.
Vendor profile
Cegid
Cegid's HR suite offers two recruiting lines: Cegid HR Talent Acquisition (ex-DigitalRecruiters), an ATS/CRM with CV parsing, scorecards, automated scoring and an AI conversational agent that pre-qualifies candidates on career sites and WhatsApp, and Cegid Talentsoft (now sold as Cegid HR Suite) recruiting, whose 'Recruiting Match' matches positions to candidates algorithmically.
§ The record
Avature and Cegid are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Avature | Cegid |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2004 | 1983 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · Cegid 30
1.8 weighted points to Avature
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · Cegid 50
1.0 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · Cegid 55
0.6 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · Cegid 55
0.4 weighted points to Avature
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · Cegid 62
0.2 weighted points to Cegid
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 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 +3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus Cegid.
| Category | Weight | Avature | Cegid | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 45 (F) | +3 | +3.7 |
§ 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 | Avature | Cegid | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 33 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Cegid has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 39 for Cegid, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cegid last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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