§ The result
Greenhouse leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 37 points between Greenhouse (ATS-integrated) and Cognisess (Assessment): 67 (D) for Greenhouse, 30 (F) for Cognisess. Greenhouse is ahead of Cognisess on all 7 criteria, every one of them by 20 raw points or more. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 20, Greenhouse 86, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse 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
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Greenhouse 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 | Greenhouse |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Greenhouse 86
11.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Greenhouse 78
10.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Greenhouse 42
3.3 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Greenhouse 64
3.3 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Greenhouse 58
3.1 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Greenhouse 66
2.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Greenhouse 64
1.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -37.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 37.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -37 beside that -37.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Greenhouse.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Greenhouse | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 78 | -53 | -10.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 86 | -66 | -11.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 64 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 66 | -24 | -2.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 58 | -26 | -3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 64 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 67 (D) | -37 | -37.0 |
§ 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 | Greenhouse | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 1 | 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; Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Greenhouse sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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