§ The result
Harver leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Harver and Cognisess, both Assessment entries, are 26 points apart under rubric v1.0, 56 for Harver against 30 for Cognisess. Cognisess leads none of the 7 criteria, and Harver is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cognisess 20, Harver 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Harver 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
Harver
Pre-employment assessment suite covering cognitive ability, behavioral, and situational judgement, including the legacy Pymetrics games product.
§ The record
Cognisess and Harver are both filed under Assessment 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 | Harver |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Harver 80
10.8 weighted points to Harver
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Harver 65
8.0 weighted points to Harver
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Harver 35
2.3 weighted points to Harver
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Harver 55
1.9 weighted points to Harver
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Harver 60
1.6 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Harver 50
1.0 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Harver 40
1.0 weighted points to Harver
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -26.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -26 beside that -26.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Harver.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Harver | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 65 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 80 | -60 | -10.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 56 (F) | -26 | -26.5 |
§ 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 | Harver | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 0 | 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; Harver has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 0 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 10 for Harver, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Harver last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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