§ The result
Emmersion leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Emmersion sits 14 points above Cognisess under rubric v1.0, 44 against 30, with both filed under Assessment. Emmersion leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cognisess none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to Emmersion 38. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cognisess 25, Emmersion 57) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Emmersion holds across the 7 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
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
§ The record
Cognisess and Emmersion 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 | Cognisess | Emmersion |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Emmersion 57
6.4 weighted points to Emmersion
8% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Emmersion 60
1.6 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Emmersion 30
1.5 weighted points to Emmersion
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Emmersion 28
1.4 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Emmersion 53
1.3 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Emmersion 50
1.2 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Emmersion 38
0.7 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.2 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 -14.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Emmersion.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Emmersion | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 57 | -32 | -6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 53 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 44 (F) | -14 | -14.2 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 5 | Sources 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; Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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