§ The result
HirePro leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
HirePro scores 38 and Cognisess 30 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. HirePro is ahead of Cognisess on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Post-Market Monitoring at Cognisess 32 to HirePro 35. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 20, HirePro 33, 18% weight), is only 29% of the weighted advantage HirePro builds across the 7 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
HirePro
HirePro's AI Recruiter matches resumes to a job, shortlists candidates and runs AI-led interviews that score each answer with written reasoning and a fraud and identity check, alongside proctored assessments, video interviews and campus-hiring workflows.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, HirePro 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 | HirePro |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2011 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · HirePro 33
2.3 weighted points to HirePro
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · HirePro 55
1.6 weighted points to HirePro
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · HirePro 50
1.2 weighted points to HirePro
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · HirePro 30
1.0 weighted points to HirePro
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · HirePro 52
1.0 weighted points to HirePro
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · HirePro 25
0.8 weighted points to HirePro
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · HirePro 35
0.4 weighted points to HirePro
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus HirePro.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | HirePro | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 38 (F) | -8 | -8.2 |
§ 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 | HirePro | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 3 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 6 | 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; HirePro has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 6 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 27 for HirePro, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HirePro last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next