§ The result
Checkr leads Cezanne Recruitment on all 7 criteria.
Checkr sits 13 points above Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 41 — with Checkr filed under Screening and Cezanne Recruitment under ATS-integrated. Checkr takes all 7 criteria and Cezanne Recruitment none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Cezanne Recruitment 28 to Checkr 32. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cezanne Recruitment 40, Checkr 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 49% of the weighted advantage Checkr holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Checkr under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Checkr |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Checkr 70
6.0 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Checkr 35
2.0 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Checkr 62
1.2 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Checkr 66
1.0 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Checkr 68
0.9 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Checkr 50
0.7 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Checkr 32
0.6 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Checkr.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Checkr | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 35 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 68 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 54 (F) | -13 | -12.3 |
§ 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 | Cezanne Recruitment | Checkr | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | 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 domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cezanne Recruitment has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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