§ The result
BambooHR leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
BambooHR, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above Cognisess, filed under Assessment: 43 against 30 under rubric v1.0. BambooHR takes all 7 criteria and Cognisess none of them; the nearest contest is Bias Audit Transparency, BambooHR 28 to Cognisess 20. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (BambooHR 62, Cognisess 40) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (BambooHR 42, Cognisess 25), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage BambooHR holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
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
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Cognisess under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cognisess is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2008 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Cognisess 25
3.4 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 42% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Cognisess 20
2.1 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Cognisess 42
2.1 weighted points to BambooHR
8% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Cognisess 40
1.8 weighted points to BambooHR
18% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Cognisess 20
1.4 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Cognisess 32
1.4 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Cognisess 42
1.0 weighted points to BambooHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 20 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 32 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 30 (F) | +13 | +13.2 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 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 domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next