Cegid

Cegid's HR suite offers two recruiting lines: Cegid HR Talent Acquisition (ex-DigitalRecruiters), an ATS/CRM with CV parsing, scorecards, automated scoring and an AI conversational agent that pre-qualifies candidates on career sites and WhatsApp, and Cegid Talentsoft (now sold as Cegid HR Suite) recruiting, whose 'Recruiting Match' matches positions to candidates algorithmically.
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HireAIScore rates Cegid 45 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed September 25, 2026. Cegid ranks 47 of 77 vendors rated in ATS-integrated AI, against a category average of 47. That score is drawn from 39 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Cegid — 33 with a cited source, 6 recording that nothing was located.

Score breakdown

Cegid, criterion by criterion

Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.

Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.

  1. Article 11 Technical Documentation

    Weight 20% · avg 51

    50

    +10.0

  2. Bias Audit Transparency

    Weight 18% · avg 41

    30

    +5.4

  3. FRIA Support

    Weight 15% · avg 32

    32

    +4.8

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    Weight 15% · avg 54

    55

    +8.3

  5. Human Oversight Design

    Weight 12% · avg 57

    55

    +6.6

  6. Post-Market Monitoring

    Weight 12% · avg 42

    40

    +4.8

  7. Customer Documentation

    Weight 8% · avg 59

    62

    +5.0

Total weighted score

44.8(rounded to 45 for display)

Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 77 ATS-integrated AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.

Strongest criterion

Customer Documentation

62raw / 100

Contributes 5.0 to the total. 62 against a 59 category average.

Weakest criterion

Bias Audit Transparency

30raw / 100

Contributes 5.4 to the total. 30 against a 41 category average.

Cited evidence

The evidence behind the score

Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.

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Evidence ledger

Items
39
Documentation
23
Audit report
1
Public statement
9
Absence
6
With a source URL
33 of 39
Source hostnames
2
Fewest items
3
FRIA Support

These figures measure how thoroughly Cegid was reviewed, not how Cegid performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.

Article 11 Technical Documentation

7 items50

Bias Audit Transparency

4 items30

FRIA Support

3 items32
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Cegid's March 2026 GDPR amendment (clause 4.2) commits it to supply, on written request, the information customers need for data-protection impact assessments and CNIL prior consultations, which helps with GDPR DPIAs but not AI Act FRIAs.

    https://www.cegid.com/fr/cgv/?slugFileName=cegid_avenant_rgpd_fr

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The Talent Acquisition booklet sets out which GDPR duties stay with the customer as controller (legal basis, candidate information, intra-group transfers) and cites the CNIL's 2019 HR-management referential for choosing legal bases.

    https://www.cegid.com/fr/cgv/?slugFileName=fr_livret-de-services_cegid-hr-talent-acquisition

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No EU AI Act Art. 27 fundamental-rights impact assessment template, Art. 26 deployer-obligation guide or candidate/worker AI-information template was found on cegid.com, the contract-documents hub, the three HR service booklets, the Security Assurance Plan or the June 2026 AI press release.

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Data Governance Disclosure

7 items55

Human Oversight Design

6 items55

Post-Market Monitoring

6 items40

Customer Documentation

6 items62
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Cegid's contract-documents page publicly lists service booklets and technical prerequisites for Cegid HR Talent Acquisition, Cegid HR Suite (ex-Talentsoft) and the Conversational Agent (ex-KMB Labs), alongside the GDPR amendment, ISO certificate, statement of applicability and Security Assurance Plan.

    https://www.cegid.com/fr/cgv/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The Cegid HR Talent Acquisition page describes the AI agent (24/7, WhatsApp qualification, 35 languages), pre-screening tools (CV parsing, scorecards, questionnaires, assessments) and GDPR features (built-in consent, purging or anonymising rejected candidates' data).

    https://www.cegid.com/fr/produits/cegid-hr/talent-acquisition/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The ATS/CRM page documents AI CV summaries and scoring from assessments and questionnaires, and its FAQ tells buyers to check for a DPA, EU data location, default CV retention and ISO 27001/HDS certification.

    https://www.cegid.com/fr/produits/cegid-hr/talent-acquisition/logiciel-recrutement-ats-crm-saas/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Cegid's Canadian Talentsoft page, titled 'Recruiting Match', says the module matches positions to candidates with a matching algorithm and schedules interviews automatically, with no further technical detail.

    https://www.cegid.com/ca/produits/cegid-talentsoft/acquisition-de-talents/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Cegid's Privacy Resource Center publishes sub-processor lists by business unit and lets customers sign up for change notifications.

    https://www.cegid.com/global/lp/list-of-subcontractors-by-business-unit/

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No AI Act deployer guide, candidate-facing AI notice template or NYC LL 144, Illinois or Colorado guidance was found on cegid.com or in the service booklets.

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Editorial notes

Company overview

Cegid SAS is a Lyon-based business-software group founded in 1983 and majority-owned by Silver Lake. It reports more than 5,000 employees and sales in 130 countries, and in September 2026 it announced a planned combination with payroll vendor Silae, expected to close in H1 2027. Its HR suite has two recruiting lines. Cegid HR Talent Acquisition (formerly DigitalRecruiters, acquired in 2022) is an ATS/CRM with CV parsing, AI CV summaries, scorecards and automated scoring. It also has a conversational agent (formerly KMB Labs) that pre-qualifies candidates 24/7 on career sites and WhatsApp. Cegid Talentsoft, now sold as Cegid HR Suite, markets 'Recruiting Match', which matches positions to candidates with an algorithm. Cegid's sub-processor list names CleverConnect and Textkernel as its candidate-matching partners for Talentsoft Recruiting. In June 2026 Cegid announced Mistral-based recruiting agents for CV triage and pre-qualification, due 'in the coming months'.

Regulatory exposure

Both lines rank, score and pre-qualify applicants, which puts them in EU AI Act Annex III point 4 high-risk territory. Cegid says so itself in its June 2026 press release, and it has signed the EU AI Pact pledges. Under the Digital AI Omnibus, the Annex III obligations apply from 2 December 2027. For Cegid as provider, they cover technical documentation, logging, human-oversight design and instructions for use; customers as deployers take on oversight, monitoring and worker information. The Art. 5 bans, including workplace emotion recognition, have applied since February 2025, and nothing found suggests Cegid uses emotion recognition. As a French processor, Cegid is already bound by GDPR and CNIL rules on profiling and DPIAs. Its marketing of 'automated pre-qualification' through scoring sits awkwardly with the contractual statement that its products do no automated decision-making or profiling. The recruiting products are marketed mainly in Europe, with Canadian hosting and Latin American Talentsoft pages, and no US site was found, so US exposure looks limited. A customer using the scoring or matching to hire in New York City would still need an LL 144 bias audit and candidate notices. US hiring would also trigger Illinois HB 3773 duties (in force since 1 January 2026), Colorado SB 26-189 disclosures (from 1 January 2027) and California's FEHA automated-decision rules (since 1 October 2025). Cegid publishes no US-specific material.

Path to a higher score

Cegid publishes unusually complete contract and security documents; its gaps are AI-specific. The largest gains would come from six steps. (1) Publish AI Act-style technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use for the Talent Acquisition scoring and pre-qualification agent, the conversational agent and Recruiting Match. These should name the models (Azure-hosted LLMs, Mistral, Textkernel, CleverConnect), the inputs and the excluded attributes. (2) Commission and publish an independent bias audit of the scoring and matching features with impact ratios, and publish the scope, date and report behind the claimed GoodAlgo ADEL label. (3) Issue deployer guidance covering Art. 26 duties, an Art. 27 FRIA template, candidate AI notices and LL 144 and Illinois templates. (4) Document in-product explanations, override controls and decision logs, and offer per-feature or per-jurisdiction toggles in place of the current tenant-wide on/off switch. (5) Bring the Talent Acquisition module and the conversational agent into ISO 27001 scope and pursue ISO/IEC 42001. (6) Launch a public status page and an AI changelog, renew the expired security.txt, and add Mistral to the sub-processor list.

Regulatory frame

What applies to ATS-integrated AI.

Ranking features are inside EU AI Act Annex III §4 (high-risk) and inside NYC Local Law 144 when they affect NYC-based candidates. Customers should treat the AI surface as a distinct deployer-FRIA scope from the rest of the ATS.

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