§ The result
ConverzAI leads Cognisess by 14 points.
ConverzAI sits 14 points above Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 30 — with ConverzAI filed under Screening and Cognisess under Assessment. ConverzAI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cognisess leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cognisess 20, ConverzAI 72) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage ConverzAI holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
ConverzAI
ConverzAI's Virtual Recruiter is an agentic voice, SMS and email AI agent for staffing firms. It contacts applicants within minutes, runs role-specific screening interviews, scores candidates' fit to open jobs and updates the firm's ATS.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, ConverzAI under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cognisess is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | ConverzAI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · ConverzAI 72
9.4 weighted points to ConverzAI
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · ConverzAI 50
2.2 weighted points to ConverzAI
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · ConverzAI 30
1.5 weighted points to ConverzAI
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · ConverzAI 30
1.0 weighted points to ConverzAI
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · ConverzAI 45
0.4 weighted points to ConverzAI
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · ConverzAI 45
0.4 weighted points to ConverzAI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · ConverzAI 40
0.3 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus ConverzAI.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | ConverzAI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 72 | -52 | -9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 50 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 44 (F) | -14 | -14.5 |
§ 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 | Cognisess | ConverzAI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; ConverzAI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and ConverzAI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 30 for ConverzAI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ConverzAI 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