Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Cognisess vs HireQuotient
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
4 points separate HireQuotient and Cognisess.
HireQuotient (Sourcing) edges Cognisess (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 34 to 30. Cognisess takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 4 for HireQuotient, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to HireQuotient (Cognisess 25, HireQuotient 35), 41% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Human Oversight Design, Cognisess 42 to HireQuotient 57.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Cognisess3
- HireQuotient4
- Widest raw gap
- Human Oversight Design42 vs 57
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Cognisess | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | SG |
| Founded | 2011 | 2021 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight34% of the movement so far
Cognisess25HireQuotient352.0 weighted points to HireQuotient
- 2
Human Oversight Design
12% weight66% of the movement so far
Cognisess42HireQuotient571.8 weighted points to HireQuotient
- 3
Customer Documentation
8% weight79% of the movement so far
Cognisess40HireQuotient500.8 weighted points to HireQuotient
- 4
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight86% of the movement so far
Cognisess20HireQuotient180.4 weighted points to Cognisess
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight91% of the movement so far
Cognisess20HireQuotient220.3 weighted points to HireQuotient
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight96% of the movement so far
Cognisess42HireQuotient400.3 weighted points to Cognisess
- 7
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Cognisess32HireQuotient300.2 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus HireQuotient, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 18 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 57 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30F | 34F | -4 | -4.0 |
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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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