§ The result
HireVue leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
HireVue (Video interview) and Cognisess (Assessment) are 28 points apart under rubric v1.0, 58 for HireVue against 30 for Cognisess. Of the 7 criteria Cognisess wins none, and the narrowest lead HireVue holds is on Data Governance Disclosure, Cognisess 42 to HireVue 55. The advantage HireVue holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 20, HireVue 80, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 39% of the weighted points HireVue gains 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
HireVue
Asynchronous video interviewing platform with optional AI-driven assessment scoring of candidate responses.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, HireVue under Video interview 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 | HireVue |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · HireVue 80
10.8 weighted points to HireVue
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · HireVue 65
8.0 weighted points to HireVue
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · HireVue 35
2.3 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · HireVue 60
2.2 weighted points to HireVue
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · HireVue 55
1.9 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · HireVue 45
1.6 weighted points to HireVue
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · HireVue 55
1.2 weighted points to HireVue
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -27.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -28 beside that -27.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus HireVue.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | HireVue | 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 | 60 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 45 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 58 (F) | -28 | -27.9 |
§ 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 | HireVue | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 2 | 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; HireVue has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and HireVue sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 15 for HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next