§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Apriora (Alex) (Video interview) and Cognisess (Assessment) are 27 points apart under rubric v1.0, 57 for Apriora (Alex) against 30 for Cognisess. Cognisess leads none of the 7 criteria, and Apriora (Alex) is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Apriora (Alex) 83, Cognisess 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
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
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Cognisess under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Cognisess 20
11.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Cognisess 25
5.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Cognisess 20
2.7 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Cognisess 42
2.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Cognisess 42
1.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Cognisess 32
1.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Cognisess 40
1.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +27.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +27.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 25 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 20 | +63 | +11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 32 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 30 (F) | +27 | +27.0 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 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% | 16 | 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 |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 Apriora (Alex) and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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