§ The result
Wellfound leads Cezanne Recruitment by 11 points.
Wellfound sits 11 points above Cezanne Recruitment under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 41 — with Wellfound filed under Screening and Cezanne Recruitment under ATS-integrated. Wellfound leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cezanne Recruitment leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 2 are level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cezanne Recruitment 24, Wellfound 82) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 84% of the weighted advantage Wellfound 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
Wellfound
Wellfound is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform whose wellfound:ai suite auto-generates screening criteria from a job description, then scores and ranks inbound applicants (AI Resume Screening) and surfaces outbound candidates from a talent graph of 10M opt-in Wellfound profiles plus 500M+ enriched external profiles.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Wellfound 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.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Wellfound 82
10.4 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Wellfound 60
1.9 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Wellfound 45
1.3 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Wellfound 52
0.7 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Wellfound 58
0.1 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 82 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 60 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 52 (F) | -11 | -10.4 |
§ 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 | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 22 | 9 | 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; Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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