§ The result
Dayforce leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Dayforce (ATS-integrated) and Cognisess (Assessment): 57 for Dayforce, 30 for Cognisess. Dayforce leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Cognisess leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 25, Dayforce 74, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 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
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Dayforce under ATS-integrated 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 | Dayforce |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 1992 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Dayforce 74
9.8 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Dayforce 42
4.0 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Dayforce 63
3.1 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Dayforce 68
3.1 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Dayforce 40
3.0 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Dayforce 70
2.4 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Dayforce 47
1.8 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -27.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -27 beside that -27.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Dayforce.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Dayforce | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 74 | -49 | -9.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 63 | -21 | -3.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 68 | -26 | -3.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 47 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -2.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 57 (F) | -27 | -27.2 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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