§ The result
3 points separate Cezanne Recruitment and Brazen.
Cezanne Recruitment (ATS-integrated) edges Brazen (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 41 to 38. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Cezanne Recruitment, with 1 level: Cezanne Recruitment is ahead on Human Oversight Design and Brazen on Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage Cezanne Recruitment holds is spread out: Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brazen 46, Cezanne Recruitment 58, 12% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Cezanne Recruitment gains across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen 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, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2007 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
1.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
1.3 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
1.1 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.2 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 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 -3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 24 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 57 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 41 (F) | -3 | -3.0 |
§ 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 | Brazen | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Cezanne Recruitment has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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