§ The result
Fuel50 leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 28 points between Fuel50 (Sourcing) and Cognisess (Assessment): 58 for Fuel50, 30 for Cognisess. Fuel50 leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Cognisess leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (Cognisess 20, Fuel50 68) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cognisess 25, Fuel50 70), 32% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 builds 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
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Fuel50 under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Fuel50 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Fuel50 70
9.0 weighted points to Fuel50
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Fuel50 68
8.6 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Fuel50 64
3.3 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Fuel50 61
2.3 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Fuel50 32
1.8 weighted points to Fuel50
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Fuel50 62
1.8 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Fuel50 40
1.0 weighted points to Fuel50
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -27.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -28 beside that -27.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Fuel50.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Fuel50 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 70 | -45 | -9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 68 | -48 | -8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 32 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 64 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 61 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 58 (F) | -28 | -27.7 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 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 | 4 | 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; Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Fuel50 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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