§ The result
Bryq leads Cezanne Recruitment by 16 points.
Bryq finishes 16 points clear of Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 41 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Cezanne Recruitment takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Bryq, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Bryq 70, Cezanne Recruitment 24) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
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
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Cezanne Recruitment under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
8.3 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
2.8 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
1.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
1.3 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
1.2 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.7 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
0.5 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 24 | +46 | +8.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 57 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 41 (F) | +16 | +15.6 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Cezanne Recruitment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 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 Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next