§ The result
Avature leads Cezanne Recruitment by 7 points.
Inside the ATS-integrated cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Avature on 48 and Cezanne Recruitment on 41, 7 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Avature: Avature is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cezanne Recruitment on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Avature (Avature 55, Cezanne Recruitment 40), 40% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Bias Audit Transparency, Avature 40 to Cezanne Recruitment 24.
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
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
Avature 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 | Avature | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2004 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
3.0 weighted points to Avature
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
2.9 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
0.6 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
0.6 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.5 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
0.2 weighted points to Avature
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.2 weighted points to Avature
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 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 +7.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Avature | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 24 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 44 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 41 (F) | +7 | +7.1 |
§ 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 | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 |
Avature 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 Avature 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 Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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