§ The result
Coderbyte leads Cognisess on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Both filed under Assessment, Coderbyte and Cognisess come out 42 and 30 under rubric v1.0, 12 points in favour of Coderbyte. Coderbyte 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 Coderbyte leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Coderbyte 40 to Cognisess 32. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Coderbyte 44, Cognisess 25, 20% weight), is only 31% of the weighted advantage Coderbyte builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Coderbyte
Coderbyte is a technical hiring platform offering coding assessments with automated and AI grading of challenges and take-home projects, live coding interviews, and AI screening that grades resumes against job-description criteria and runs agentic phone screens.
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
Coderbyte and Cognisess are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Coderbyte | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Coderbyte 44 · Cognisess 25
3.8 weighted points to Coderbyte
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Coderbyte 60 · Cognisess 42
2.2 weighted points to Coderbyte
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Coderbyte 56 · Cognisess 42
2.1 weighted points to Coderbyte
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Coderbyte 33 · Cognisess 20
1.9 weighted points to Coderbyte
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Coderbyte 58 · Cognisess 40
1.4 weighted points to Coderbyte
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Coderbyte 40 · Cognisess 32
1.0 weighted points to Coderbyte
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Coderbyte minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Coderbyte | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 25 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 20 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 30 (F) | +12 | +12.4 |
§ 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 | Coderbyte | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 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% | 26 | 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 |
Coderbyte has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 Coderbyte and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Coderbyte, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Coderbyte last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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