§ The result
Classet leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 25 points between Classet (Screening) and Cognisess (Assessment): 55 for Classet, 30 for Cognisess. Classet leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Cognisess leads none. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Classet 76, Cognisess 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Classet holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Classet
Classet's AI voice recruiter, Joy, phones hourly and frontline applicants within about a minute of applying, runs employer-scripted screening interviews with binary knockout questions, and sends recruiters recordings, transcripts, summaries and a qualified/unqualified outcome, either in Classet's lightweight ATS or in 100+ connected ATSs.
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
Classet is filed under Screening AI, Cognisess under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Classet | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2021 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Classet 76 · Cognisess 20
10.1 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Classet 46 · Cognisess 25
4.2 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Classet 58 · Cognisess 32
3.1 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Classet 57 · Cognisess 42
2.3 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Classet 33 · Cognisess 20
1.9 weighted points to Classet
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Classet 62 · Cognisess 40
1.8 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Classet 55 · Cognisess 42
1.6 weighted points to Classet
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +25 beside that +24.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Classet minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Classet | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 25 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 76 | 20 | +56 | +10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 20 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 42 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 32 | +26 | +3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 30 (F) | +25 | +24.9 |
§ 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 | Classet | 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% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 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% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 33 | 5 | 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 |
Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 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 Classet and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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