§ The result
Alooba leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Inside the Assessment cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Alooba on 38 and Cognisess on 30, 8 points apart. Alooba takes all 7 criteria from Cognisess without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Bias Audit Transparency, Alooba 22 to Cognisess 20. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Alooba 58, Cognisess 40) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Alooba 40, Cognisess 25), the second being 35% of the weighted advantage Alooba holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
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
Alooba and Cognisess are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Cognisess 25
3.0 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Cognisess 42
1.6 weighted points to Alooba
8% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Cognisess 40
1.4 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Cognisess 20
1.2 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Cognisess 32
0.5 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Cognisess 42
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Cognisess 20
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 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 +8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 32 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 30 (F) | +8 | +8.5 |
§ 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 | Alooba | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 Alooba and Cognisess 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: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next