§ The result
Covey leads Cognisess by 17 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Covey (Sourcing) opens a 17-point lead on Cognisess (Assessment), 47 to 30. Covey leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cognisess leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cognisess 20, Covey 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Covey holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Covey
Covey is an AI recruiting platform whose Covey Scout product trains generative-AI bots from plain-language hiring criteria to source, evaluate, and rank candidate profiles for outbound sourcing and inbound applicant screening.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Covey under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
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 | Covey |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Covey 72
9.4 weighted points to Covey
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Covey 40
3.0 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Covey 52
1.5 weighted points to Covey
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Covey 58
1.4 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Covey 52
1.2 weighted points to Covey
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Covey 25
0.8 weighted points to Covey
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Covey 30
0.2 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Covey.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Covey | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 72 | -52 | -9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 47 (F) | -17 | -17.0 |
§ 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 | Covey | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 5 | 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; Covey has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Covey sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 11 for Covey, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Covey last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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