§ The result
Cognisess and HeroHunt.ai tie at 30.
Cognisess, filed under Assessment, and HeroHunt.ai, filed under Sourcing, tie at 30 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Cognisess leads 3 of the 7 criteria and HeroHunt.ai 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Cognisess takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Cognisess 20, HeroHunt.ai 10), which is 55% of the weighted advantage Cognisess holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, Cognisess 42 to HeroHunt.ai 55.
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
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, HeroHunt.ai 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 | HeroHunt.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2011 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · HeroHunt.ai 10
1.8 weighted points to Cognisess
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · HeroHunt.ai 55
1.6 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · HeroHunt.ai 27
1.1 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · HeroHunt.ai 20
1.0 weighted points to Cognisess
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · HeroHunt.ai 48
0.6 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · HeroHunt.ai 28
0.5 weighted points to Cognisess
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · HeroHunt.ai 45
0.4 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus HeroHunt.ai.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | HeroHunt.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 10 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 27 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 30 (F) | - | -0.4 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 7 | 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; HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and HeroHunt.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next