§ The result
2 points separate Breezy HR and Cezanne Recruitment.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Breezy HR edges Cezanne Recruitment by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 43 to 41. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Breezy HR: Breezy HR is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cezanne Recruitment on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Breezy HR 50, Cezanne Recruitment 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 74% of the weighted advantage Breezy HR holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
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
Breezy HR 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 | Breezy HR | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
2.0 weighted points to Breezy HR
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Breezy HR 55 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Breezy HR 30 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
0.3 weighted points to Breezy HR
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
0.2 weighted points to Breezy HR
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
0.1 weighted points to Breezy HR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.1 weighted points to Breezy HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 24 | +1 | +0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 41 (F) | +2 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | Breezy HR | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 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 Breezy HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next