§ The result
hackajob leads Cognisess on 6 of the 7 criteria.
hackajob finishes 15 points clear of Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 30 — across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. hackajob leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Cognisess is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 hackajob leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to hackajob 38. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cognisess 25, hackajob 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage hackajob holds across the 6 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
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, hackajob 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 | hackajob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2011 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · hackajob 60
7.0 weighted points to hackajob
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · hackajob 58
2.4 weighted points to hackajob
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · hackajob 32
1.8 weighted points to hackajob
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · hackajob 60
1.6 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · hackajob 55
1.6 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · hackajob 38
0.7 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -15.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus hackajob.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | hackajob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 60 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 32 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 45 (F) | -15 | -15.1 |
§ 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 | hackajob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 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 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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