§ The result
HiBob leads Cezanne Recruitment by 5 points.
Inside the ATS-integrated cohort, rubric v1.0 puts HiBob on 46 and Cezanne Recruitment on 41, 5 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of HiBob: HiBob is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cezanne Recruitment on Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cezanne Recruitment 40, HiBob 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage HiBob holds across the 6 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
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment and HiBob 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 | HiBob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · HiBob 55
3.0 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · HiBob 35
1.1 weighted points to HiBob
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · HiBob 20
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · HiBob 63
0.6 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · HiBob 57
0.4 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · HiBob 47
0.4 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · HiBob 61
0.3 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 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 -5.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus HiBob.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | HiBob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 20 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 57 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 47 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 61 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 46 (F) | -5 | -5.1 |
§ 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 | HiBob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 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; HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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