§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 29 points between Braintrust AIR (Screening) and Cognisess (Assessment): 59 for Braintrust AIR, 30 for Cognisess. Braintrust AIR leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Cognisess leads none. The advantage Braintrust AIR holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Braintrust AIR 75, Cognisess 20, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Braintrust AIR gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
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
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Cognisess under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Cognisess 20
9.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Cognisess 25
6.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Cognisess 32
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Cognisess 42
2.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Cognisess 20
2.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Cognisess 42
2.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Cognisess 40
1.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +28.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 28.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +29 beside that +28.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 25 | +33 | +6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 20 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 32 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 40 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 30 (F) | +29 | +28.7 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | 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 |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 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 Braintrust AIR and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next