§ The result
Cappfinity leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Cappfinity sits 10 points above Cognisess under rubric v1.0, 40 against 30, with both filed under Assessment. Cappfinity is ahead of Cognisess on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Post-Market Monitoring at Cappfinity 38 to Cognisess 32. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Cappfinity 56, Cognisess 40) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cappfinity 36, Cognisess 25), 23% of the weighted advantage Cappfinity builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
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
Cappfinity and Cognisess are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2005 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Cognisess 25
2.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Cognisess 42
1.5 weighted points to Cappfinity
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Cognisess 20
1.4 weighted points to Cappfinity
8% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Cognisess 40
1.3 weighted points to Cappfinity
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Cognisess 20
1.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Cognisess 42
1.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · Cognisess 32
0.7 weighted points to Cappfinity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 30 (F) | +10 | +9.5 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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 Cappfinity and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next