§ The result
Mercer | Mettl takes the total, Cezanne Recruitment takes more of the criteria.
Mercer | Mettl holds a 1-point edge over Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0, 42 to 41, across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Cezanne Recruitment leads more of the criteria, 4 against 2 for Mercer | Mettl, yet Mercer | Mettl takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cezanne Recruitment 24, Mercer | Mettl 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 96% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds across the 2 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
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercer | Mettl 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 Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Mercer | Mettl 42
3.2 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Mercer | Mettl 45
1.6 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Mercer | Mettl 38
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Mercer | Mettl 38
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.1 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.3 — 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 -1 beside that -0.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 42 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 38 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 42 (F) | -1 | -0.3 |
§ 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 | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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; Mercer | Mettl 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 Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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