§ The result
2 points separate Ribbon and Cezanne Recruitment.
Ribbon holds a 2-point edge over Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0, 43 to 41, across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Ribbon: Ribbon is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Cezanne Recruitment on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cezanne Recruitment 24, Ribbon 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Ribbon holds across the 4 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
Ribbon
Ribbon is an AI recruiter that runs voice and video screening interviews with applicants around the clock, scores each interview against default and custom rubrics, ranks candidates for recruiter review, and syncs the results to 60+ applicant tracking systems.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Ribbon 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 Ribbon is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Ribbon 38
2.5 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Ribbon 37
0.8 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Ribbon 33
0.8 weighted points to Ribbon
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Ribbon 50
0.6 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Ribbon 42
0.4 weighted points to Ribbon
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Ribbon 55
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Ribbon 58
0.1 weighted points to Ribbon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Ribbon.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Ribbon | 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 | 33 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 37 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 43 (F) | -2 | -2.0 |
§ 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 | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources 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 domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources 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; Ribbon has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Ribbon sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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