§ The result
BrightHire leads Cezanne Recruitment by 10 points.
BrightHire sits 10 points above Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 41 — with BrightHire filed under Screening and Cezanne Recruitment under ATS-integrated. Cezanne Recruitment takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for BrightHire, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (BrightHire 50, Cezanne Recruitment 24) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire 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 BrightHire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
4.7 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
2.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.4 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.2 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 24 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 41 (F) | +10 | +9.6 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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