§ The result
3 points separate Cezanne Recruitment and impress.ai.
Cezanne Recruitment (ATS-integrated) edges impress.ai (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 41 to 38. Cezanne Recruitment leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while impress.ai leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure. Even Post-Market Monitoring, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cezanne Recruitment 44, impress.ai 32, 12% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage Cezanne Recruitment builds across the 5 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
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, impress.ai 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. Only impress.ai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | GB | SG |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · impress.ai 32
1.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · impress.ai 35
1.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · impress.ai 52
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · impress.ai 25
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
18% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · impress.ai 22
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · impress.ai 55
0.1 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · impress.ai 58
0.1 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 22 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 32 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 38 (F) | +3 | +3.7 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 18 | 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; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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