§ The result
Cezanne Recruitment leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Cezanne Recruitment scores 41 and Ceipal 35 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Cezanne Recruitment is ahead of Ceipal on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being FRIA Support at Ceipal 25 to Cezanne Recruitment 28. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap (Ceipal 46, Cezanne Recruitment 58) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Ceipal 30, Cezanne Recruitment 40), 29% of the weighted advantage Cezanne Recruitment builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal and Cezanne Recruitment are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cezanne Recruitment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | Cezanne Recruitment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Cezanne Recruitment 40
2.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Cezanne Recruitment 58
1.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Cezanne Recruitment 54
1.2 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Cezanne Recruitment 24
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Cezanne Recruitment 44
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Cezanne Recruitment 28
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Cezanne Recruitment 57
0.3 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Cezanne Recruitment.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Cezanne Recruitment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 24 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 54 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 57 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 41 (F) | -6 | -6.9 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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