§ The result
Breezy HR leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Breezy HR, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above Cognisess, filed under Assessment: 43 against 30 under rubric v1.0. Breezy HR leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cognisess none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Breezy HR 25 to Cognisess 20. The advantage Breezy HR holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Breezy HR 50, Cognisess 25, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points Breezy HR gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
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
Breezy HR 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 | Breezy HR | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · Cognisess 25
5.0 weighted points to Breezy HR
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · Cognisess 42
1.9 weighted points to Breezy HR
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Breezy HR 55 · Cognisess 42
1.6 weighted points to Breezy HR
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Breezy HR 30 · Cognisess 20
1.5 weighted points to Breezy HR
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · Cognisess 40
1.4 weighted points to Breezy HR
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · Cognisess 20
0.9 weighted points to Breezy HR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · Cognisess 32
0.7 weighted points to Breezy HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 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 +13.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 25 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 30 (F) | +13 | +13.1 |
§ 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 | Breezy HR | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 4 | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | 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 |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 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 Breezy HR and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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