§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Cezanne Recruitment on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of SmartRecruiters and Cezanne Recruitment comes out 62 (D) to 41 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 21-point lead for SmartRecruiters. Of the 7 criteria Cezanne Recruitment wins none, and the narrowest lead SmartRecruiters holds is on Human Oversight Design, Cezanne Recruitment 58 to SmartRecruiters 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cezanne Recruitment 24, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment and SmartRecruiters 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 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · SmartRecruiters 78
9.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · SmartRecruiters 70
6.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 78 | -54 | -9.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 45 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 48 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 62 (D) | -21 | -20.9 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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