§ The result
HeyMilo leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 31 points between HeyMilo (Screening) and Cognisess (Assessment): 61 (D) for HeyMilo, 30 (F) for Cognisess. HeyMilo leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Cognisess leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 20, HeyMilo 83, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage HeyMilo 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
HeyMilo
HeyMilo is an AI recruiter for high-volume hiring whose voice and video AI agent conducts and scores async and live conversational screening interviews against recruiter-defined rubrics and syncs results to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, HeyMilo under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | HeyMilo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · HeyMilo 83
11.3 weighted points to HeyMilo
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · HeyMilo 58
6.6 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · HeyMilo 42
3.3 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · HeyMilo 62
3.0 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · HeyMilo 64
2.6 weighted points to HeyMilo
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · HeyMilo 66
2.1 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · HeyMilo 46
1.7 weighted points to HeyMilo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -30.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 30.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -31 beside that -30.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus HeyMilo.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | HeyMilo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 58 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 83 | -63 | -11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 64 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 46 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 66 | -26 | -2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 61 (D) | -31 | -30.6 |
§ 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 | HeyMilo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 18 | 3 | 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; HeyMilo has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and HeyMilo sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 21 for HeyMilo, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HeyMilo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next