§ The result
HiringBranch leads Cezanne Recruitment by 11 points.
HiringBranch, filed under Assessment, comes out 11 points above Cezanne Recruitment, filed under ATS-integrated: 52 against 41 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of HiringBranch: HiringBranch is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Cezanne Recruitment on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cezanne Recruitment 24, HiringBranch 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 5 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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HiringBranch under Assessment 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. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · HiringBranch 60
6.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · HiringBranch 60
4.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · HiringBranch 35
1.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · HiringBranch 52
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · HiringBranch 64
0.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · HiringBranch 40
0.5 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · HiringBranch 55
0.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 60 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 64 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 52 (F) | -11 | -11.0 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 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; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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