§ The result
Lever leads Cezanne Recruitment on all 7 criteria.
Lever scores 49 and Cezanne Recruitment 41 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Lever is ahead of Cezanne Recruitment on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Post-Market Monitoring at Cezanne Recruitment 44 to Lever 45. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cezanne Recruitment 24, Lever 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Lever holds across the 7 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
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment and Lever 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 | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Lever 42
3.2 weighted points to Lever
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Lever 52
2.4 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Lever 32
0.6 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Lever 58
0.6 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Lever 60
0.2 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Lever 45
0.1 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Lever 58
0.1 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 42 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 45 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 49 (F) | -8 | -7.3 |
§ 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 | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cezanne Recruitment has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
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 Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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