§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Cezanne Recruitment by 8 points.
Versant by Pearson scores 49 and Cezanne Recruitment 41 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Versant by Pearson: Versant by Pearson is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cezanne Recruitment on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cezanne Recruitment 40, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds 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
Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Versant by Pearson 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 Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Versant by Pearson 63
4.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Versant by Pearson 42
3.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.2 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.1 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.1 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 63 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 42 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 53 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 43 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 61 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 49 (F) | -8 | -8.0 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | 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; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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