§ The result
1 point separates Cezanne Recruitment and Pillar.
Cezanne Recruitment (ATS-integrated) edges Pillar (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 41 to 40. Pillar takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 4 for Cezanne Recruitment, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and Pillar holds it (Cezanne Recruitment 24, Pillar 38, 18% weight), worth 78% of the weighted advantage Pillar builds across the 3 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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pillar 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 Pillar is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Pillar 38
2.5 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Pillar 45
1.3 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Pillar 33
1.3 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Pillar 48
1.2 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Pillar 50
0.6 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Pillar 42
0.4 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Pillar 30
0.3 weighted points to Pillar
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 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 +1.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 38 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 33 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 40 (F) | +1 | +1.2 |
§ 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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 12 | 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; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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