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Cezanne Recruitment vs Paycor
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
1 point separates Cezanne Recruitment and Paycor.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Cezanne Recruitment edges Paycor by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 41 to 40. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Cezanne Recruitment, with 1 level: Cezanne Recruitment is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Paycor on Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage Cezanne Recruitment holds is spread out: Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cezanne Recruitment 44, Paycor 38, 12% weight), yet it supplies only 36% of the weighted points Cezanne Recruitment gains across the 5 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Cezanne Recruitment5
- Paycor1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring44 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Cezanne Recruitment and Paycor are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 1990 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight33% of the movement so far
Cezanne Recruitment44Paycor380.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight61% of the movement so far
Cezanne Recruitment54Paycor500.6 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight77% of the movement so far
Cezanne Recruitment58Paycor550.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
- 4
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight86% of the movement so far
Cezanne Recruitment24Paycor250.2 weighted points to Paycor
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight93% of the movement so far
Cezanne Recruitment57Paycor550.2 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Cezanne Recruitment28Paycor270.1 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.2 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 +1.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Paycor, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 25 | -1 | -0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 27 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 38 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41F | 40F | +1 | +1.8 |
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 | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
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- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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