§ The result
Brainner leads Cezanne Recruitment by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Brainner, filed under Screening, finishes on 46 and Cezanne Recruitment, filed under ATS-integrated, on 41, 5 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Brainner: Brainner is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Cezanne Recruitment on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 42, Cezanne Recruitment 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
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
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Cezanne Recruitment under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
3.2 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
2.4 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
1.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
0.3 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
0.1 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.1 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.1 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 24 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 54 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 44 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 41 (F) | +5 | +5.0 |
§ 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 | Brainner | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 4 | 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% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 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 Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next