§ The result
JobAdder leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
JobAdder finishes 15 points clear of Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 30 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. JobAdder takes all 7 criteria and Cognisess none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Cognisess 20 to JobAdder 30. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 25, JobAdder 50, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage JobAdder 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
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, JobAdder 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 | JobAdder |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | AU |
| Founded | 2011 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · JobAdder 50
5.0 weighted points to JobAdder
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · JobAdder 35
2.7 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · JobAdder 56
2.1 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · JobAdder 30
1.5 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · JobAdder 54
1.4 weighted points to JobAdder
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · JobAdder 58
1.4 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · JobAdder 43
1.3 weighted points to JobAdder
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus JobAdder.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | JobAdder | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 43 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 45 (F) | -15 | -15.5 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | 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; JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and JobAdder 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 JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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