§ The result
365Talents leads Cognisess by 16 points.
365Talents finishes 16 points clear of Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 30 — across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Cognisess takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for 365Talents, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (365Talents 63, Cognisess 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage 365Talents holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
365Talents
365Talents is an AI skills-intelligence and internal talent-marketplace platform that infers employees' skills from HRIS records, CVs, documents and collaboration tools, then matches them to internal jobs, projects, gigs, mentors, learning and succession pipelines.
Vendor profile
Cognisess
UK talent-analytics platform that scores candidates and employees with 50+ game-based and questionnaire assessments and weighted job-fit 'profilers', can auto-pass or auto-reject applicants against score thresholds, and runs recorded video interviews with optional DeepLearn video analytics.
§ The record
365Talents is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Cognisess under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | 365Talents | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
365Talents 63 · Cognisess 25
7.6 weighted points to 365Talents
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
365Talents 58 · Cognisess 42
2.4 weighted points to 365Talents
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
365Talents 35 · Cognisess 20
2.3 weighted points to 365Talents
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
365Talents 57 · Cognisess 42
1.8 weighted points to 365Talents
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
365Talents 44 · Cognisess 32
1.4 weighted points to 365Talents
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
365Talents 57 · Cognisess 40
1.4 weighted points to 365Talents
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
365Talents 18 · Cognisess 20
0.4 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is 365Talents minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | 365Talents | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 25 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 20 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 42 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 32 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 30 (F) | +16 | +16.5 |
§ 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 | 365Talents | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
365Talents has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for 365Talents, across 3 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- 365Talents last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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