§ The result
Cezanne Recruitment leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Cezanne Recruitment finishes 18 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 41 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Cezanne Recruitment leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Cezanne Recruitment 28 to Mercor 20. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cezanne Recruitment 54, Mercor 22, 15% weight), is only 26% of the weighted advantage Cezanne Recruitment builds 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
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor 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 Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Mercor 22
4.8 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Mercor 22
3.6 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Mercor 20
2.9 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Mercor 10
2.5 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Mercor 42
1.9 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Mercor 20
1.2 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 10 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 22 | +32 | +4.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 20 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 23 (F) | +18 | +18.3 |
§ 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 | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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