§ The result
Plum leads Cezanne Recruitment by 13 points.
Plum sits 13 points above Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 41 — with Plum filed under Assessment and Cezanne Recruitment under ATS-integrated. Plum leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cezanne Recruitment leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cezanne Recruitment 24, Plum 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 72% of the weighted advantage Plum holds 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
Plum
Plum is a pre-employment talent assessment platform that uses a Five-Factor (Big Five) psychometric Discovery Survey and a Talent Match model to score and rank candidates on behavioral "durable skills" for role fit, hiring, and development.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Plum 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 Plum is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Plum 83
10.6 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Plum 58
3.6 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Plum 36
1.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Plum 52
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Plum 63
0.5 weighted points to Plum
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -13.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 83 | -59 | -10.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 54 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 36 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 54 (F) | -13 | -13.0 |
§ 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 | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | 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; Plum has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 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 Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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