§ The result
1 point separates hireEZ and Cezanne Recruitment.
hireEZ holds a 1-point edge over Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0, 42 to 41, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Cezanne Recruitment and hireEZ, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side hireEZ holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cezanne Recruitment 24, hireEZ 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage hireEZ holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
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
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, hireEZ under Candidate sourcing 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 | hireEZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · hireEZ 30
1.1 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · hireEZ 60
0.9 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · hireEZ 38
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · hireEZ 25
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · hireEZ 38
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · hireEZ 58
0.1 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus hireEZ.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | hireEZ | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 30 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 38 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 42 (F) | -1 | -0.5 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | 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; hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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