§ The result
Aon Assessment leads Cognisess by 5 points.
Aon Assessment scores 35 and Cognisess 30 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Aon Assessment: Aon Assessment is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cognisess on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Aon Assessment 40, Cognisess 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Aon Assessment holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Aon Assessment
Aon Assessment Solutions (formerly cut-e) provides enterprise pre-hire psychometric assessments - ability, personality (ADEPT-15), situational-judgement, gamified cognitive (smartPredict/gridChallenge) tests and an AI-scored video interview tool (vidAssess-AI) - used to screen and rank job applicants at scale.
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
Aon Assessment and Cognisess are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Aon Assessment | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | GB |
| Founded | 2002 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · Cognisess 25
3.0 weighted points to Aon Assessment
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · Cognisess 20
1.8 weighted points to Aon Assessment
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · Cognisess 32
0.8 weighted points to Cognisess
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Aon Assessment 25 · Cognisess 20
0.8 weighted points to Aon Assessment
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · Cognisess 40
0.6 weighted points to Aon Assessment
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · Cognisess 42
0.6 weighted points to Cognisess
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · Cognisess 42
0.4 weighted points to Aon Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 30 (F) | +5 | +5.1 |
§ 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 | Aon Assessment | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Aon Assessment has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 Aon Assessment and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next