§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Cezanne Recruitment by 7 points.
Sova Assessment scores 48 and Cezanne Recruitment 41 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Sova Assessment: Sova Assessment is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cezanne Recruitment on Post-Market Monitoring. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cezanne Recruitment 40, Sova Assessment 55, 20% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment builds across the 4 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
Sova Assessment
Sova Assessment is a UK-based enterprise talent assessment platform combining personality questionnaires, cognitive and ability tests, situational judgement, video interviews, virtual assessment centres and AI-led role simulations into a single occupational-psychology-validated candidate scoring workflow.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sova Assessment 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 Sova Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Sova Assessment 55
3.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Sova Assessment 38
2.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Sova Assessment 40
1.8 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Sova Assessment 40
0.5 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Sova Assessment 62
0.4 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Sova Assessment 55
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Sova Assessment 52
0.3 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 38 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 48 (F) | -7 | -6.6 |
§ 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 | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 5 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | 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; Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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