§ The result
Jobvite leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Jobvite finishes 15 points clear of Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 30 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Jobvite takes all 7 criteria and Cognisess none of them; the nearest contest is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to Jobvite 38. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 25, Jobvite 50, 20% weight), is only 32% of the weighted advantage Jobvite builds 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
Jobvite
Jobvite is an enterprise applicant tracking and talent acquisition suite (part of Employ Inc.) that uses AI for candidate matching, intelligent messaging, and screening, with explanations of why candidates fit a role.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Jobvite 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 | Jobvite |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2006 |
§ 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 · Jobvite 50
5.0 weighted points to Jobvite
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Jobvite 38
3.2 weighted points to Jobvite
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Jobvite 55
1.9 weighted points to Jobvite
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Jobvite 55
1.6 weighted points to Jobvite
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Jobvite 30
1.5 weighted points to Jobvite
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Jobvite 58
1.4 weighted points to Jobvite
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Jobvite 38
0.7 weighted points to Jobvite
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.4 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 -15.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Jobvite.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Jobvite | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 45 (F) | -15 | -15.4 |
§ 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 | Jobvite | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | — |
| 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 | 0 | 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 | 15 | 5 | 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; Jobvite has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Jobvite sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 19 for Jobvite, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobvite last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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