§ The result
Brazen leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Brazen, filed under Screening, finishes on 38 and Cognisess, filed under Assessment, on 30, 8 points apart. Brazen takes all 7 criteria from Cognisess without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Data Governance Disclosure, Brazen 45 to Cognisess 42. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brazen 40, Cognisess 25, 20% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage Brazen builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen 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 | Brazen | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2007 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Cognisess 25
3.0 weighted points to Brazen
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Cognisess 20
1.8 weighted points to Brazen
8% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Cognisess 40
1.2 weighted points to Brazen
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Cognisess 20
0.8 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Cognisess 32
0.7 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Cognisess 42
0.5 weighted points to Brazen
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Cognisess 42
0.4 weighted points to Brazen
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 42 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 30 (F) | +8 | +8.4 |
§ 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 | Brazen | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 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 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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