§ The result
Darwinbox leads Cezanne Recruitment by 5 points.
Darwinbox scores 46 and Cezanne Recruitment 41 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Darwinbox, with 1 level: Darwinbox 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 (Cezanne Recruitment 40, Darwinbox 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 4 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
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment and Darwinbox 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 | Cezanne Recruitment | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Darwinbox 60
4.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Darwinbox 35
1.1 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
18% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Darwinbox 28
0.7 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Darwinbox 58
0.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Darwinbox 55
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Darwinbox 30
0.3 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Darwinbox.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 28 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 35 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 57 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 46 (F) | -5 | -4.2 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 7 | Sources 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; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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