§ The result
Canditech leads Cognisess on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Canditech scores 39 and Cognisess 30 under rubric v1.0 — a 9-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. Canditech leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Cognisess is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Canditech leads is Bias Audit Transparency, Canditech 25 to Cognisess 20. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Canditech 58, Cognisess 40) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Canditech 37, Cognisess 25), 26% of the weighted advantage Canditech builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
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
Canditech and Cognisess are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IL | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 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
Canditech 37 · Cognisess 25
2.4 weighted points to Canditech
15% weight · 43% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · Cognisess 20
1.5 weighted points to Canditech
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Cognisess 42
1.5 weighted points to Canditech
8% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Cognisess 40
1.4 weighted points to Canditech
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Cognisess 42
1.3 weighted points to Canditech
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Cognisess 20
0.9 weighted points to Canditech
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 25 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 42 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 30 (F) | +9 | +9.1 |
§ 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 | Canditech | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next