§ The result
Avionté leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Avionté (ATS-integrated) opens a 15-point lead on Cognisess (Assessment), 45 to 30. Avionté leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cognisess none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Avionté 22 to Cognisess 20. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Avionté 50, Cognisess 25, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Avionté holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avionté
AviontéBOLD is a front- and back-office platform for staffing agencies (ATS/CRM, onboarding, payroll and billing): its AI Matching Agent ranks candidates already in an agency's database for each job, and its Claude-powered PIXEL chatbot pre-screens and scores applicants.
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
Avionté is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Cognisess under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Cognisess is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Avionté | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2005 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avionté 50 · Cognisess 25
5.0 weighted points to Avionté
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avionté 35 · Cognisess 20
2.3 weighted points to Avionté
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avionté 60 · Cognisess 42
2.2 weighted points to Avionté
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avionté 55 · Cognisess 42
1.9 weighted points to Avionté
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avionté 62 · Cognisess 40
1.8 weighted points to Avionté
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avionté 45 · Cognisess 32
1.6 weighted points to Avionté
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avionté 22 · Cognisess 20
0.4 weighted points to Avionté
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avionté minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Avionté | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 25 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 32 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 30 (F) | +15 | +15.0 |
§ 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 | Avionté | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 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 |
Avionté has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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 Avionté and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Avionté, across 4 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avionté last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next