§ The result
Beamery leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 31 points between Beamery (Sourcing) and Cognisess (Assessment): 61 (D) for Beamery, 30 (F) for Cognisess. Beamery leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Cognisess leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Beamery 85, Cognisess 20, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage Beamery holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Beamery
Talent CRM and sourcing platform that maintains a long-lived candidate pipeline, with AI-driven matching and skills inference.
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
Beamery is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Cognisess under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Cognisess is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Beamery | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2013 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Beamery 85 · Cognisess 20
11.7 weighted points to Beamery
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Beamery 70 · Cognisess 25
9.0 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Beamery 60 · Cognisess 32
3.4 weighted points to Beamery
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Beamery 60 · Cognisess 42
2.7 weighted points to Beamery
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Beamery 60 · Cognisess 40
1.6 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Beamery 55 · Cognisess 42
1.6 weighted points to Beamery
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Beamery 30 · Cognisess 20
1.5 weighted points to Beamery
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +31.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 31.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +31 beside that +31.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Beamery minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Beamery | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 25 | +45 | +9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 20 | +65 | +11.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 32 | +28 | +3.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 30 (F) | +31 | +31.4 |
§ 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 | Beamery | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 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% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 1 | 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 |
Beamery has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Beamery and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Beamery, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Beamery last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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