§ The result
Cezanne Recruitment leads Zappyhire by 7 points.
Cezanne Recruitment scores 41 and Zappyhire 34 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Cezanne Recruitment: Cezanne Recruitment is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Zappyhire on Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Cezanne Recruitment 44, Zappyhire 28) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cezanne Recruitment 40, Zappyhire 30), 25% of the weighted advantage Cezanne Recruitment builds across the 6 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Zappyhire 30
2.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Zappyhire 28
1.9 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Zappyhire 42
1.8 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Zappyhire 50
1.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
18% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Zappyhire 28
0.7 weighted points to Zappyhire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Zappyhire 25
0.4 weighted points to Cezanne Recruitment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 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 +7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 28 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 28 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 34 (F) | +7 | +7.4 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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