§ The result
JazzHR leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
JazzHR sits 14 points above Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 30 — with JazzHR filed under ATS-integrated and Cognisess under Assessment. Of the 7 criteria Cognisess wins none, and the narrowest lead JazzHR holds is on FRIA Support, Cognisess 20 to JazzHR 28. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 25, JazzHR 45, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage JazzHR 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
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, JazzHR under ATS-integrated 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 | JazzHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · JazzHR 45
4.0 weighted points to JazzHR
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · JazzHR 35
2.7 weighted points to JazzHR
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · JazzHR 58
1.9 weighted points to JazzHR
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · JazzHR 52
1.5 weighted points to JazzHR
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · JazzHR 56
1.3 weighted points to JazzHR
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · JazzHR 28
1.2 weighted points to JazzHR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · JazzHR 42
1.2 weighted points to JazzHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus JazzHR.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | JazzHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 56 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 44 (F) | -14 | -13.8 |
§ 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 | JazzHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 17 | 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; JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and JazzHR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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