§ The result
Paycom leads Cezanne Recruitment by 9 points.
Paycom finishes 9 points ahead of Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0, 50 to 41, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. Cezanne Recruitment takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 5 for Paycom, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cezanne Recruitment 40, Paycom 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage Paycom 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
Paycom
Paycom is a single-database human capital management and payroll platform whose applicant tracking system automates recruiting with resume parsing, keyword/knockout candidate filtering, automated correspondence, generative job-description writing, and a command-driven AI data-query engine (IWant).
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment and Paycom 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 | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Paycom 68
5.6 weighted points to Paycom
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Paycom 38
2.5 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Paycom 62
1.2 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Paycom 38
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Paycom 55
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Paycom 30
0.3 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Paycom 60
0.2 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 68 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 38 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 38 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 50 (F) | -9 | -8.8 |
§ 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 | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 7 | 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; Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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