§ The result
1 point separates Cognisess and JobDiva.
Cognisess (Assessment) edges JobDiva (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 30 to 29. JobDiva takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Cognisess, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cognisess 20, JobDiva 15) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Cognisess holds across the 4 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
JobDiva
JobDiva is an all-in-one ATS, CRM, onboarding, back-office and VMS-synchronization platform for staffing agencies, with AI features including DivaMatch candidate-to-job scoring, AI-enhanced matching and semantic search, resume harvesting and generative outreach.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, JobDiva under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cognisess is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | JobDiva |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2003 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · JobDiva 15
0.9 weighted points to Cognisess
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · JobDiva 28
0.6 weighted points to JobDiva
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · JobDiva 38
0.6 weighted points to Cognisess
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · JobDiva 22
0.3 weighted points to JobDiva
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · JobDiva 40
0.2 weighted points to Cognisess
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · JobDiva 30
0.2 weighted points to Cognisess
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · JobDiva 42
0.2 weighted points to JobDiva
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus JobDiva.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | JobDiva | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 15 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 29 (F) | +1 | +0.9 |
§ 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 | JobDiva | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 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 | 20 | 8 | 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; JobDiva has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 8 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 28 for JobDiva, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobDiva last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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