§ The result
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Juicebox (PeopleGPT) (Sourcing) and Cognisess (Assessment): 57 for Juicebox (PeopleGPT), 30 for Cognisess. Juicebox (PeopleGPT) leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Cognisess leads none. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cognisess 20, Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 84) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Juicebox (PeopleGPT) holds 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
Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) is an AI talent-sourcing search engine that lets recruiters find, rank, and reach candidates across 800M+ public profiles using natural-language queries instead of Boolean search, with an "Autopilot" agent that scores and ranks profiles against job criteria.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Juicebox (PeopleGPT) under Candidate sourcing 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 | Juicebox (PeopleGPT) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 84
11.5 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 52
5.4 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 55
2.8 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 35
2.3 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 56
2.1 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 60
1.6 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 50
1.0 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -26.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -27 beside that -26.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Juicebox (PeopleGPT).
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Juicebox (PeopleGPT) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 52 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 84 | -64 | -11.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 55 | -23 | -2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 57 (F) | -27 | -26.6 |
§ 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 | Juicebox (PeopleGPT) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 4 | 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; Juicebox (PeopleGPT) has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Juicebox (PeopleGPT) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 16 for Juicebox (PeopleGPT), across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Juicebox (PeopleGPT) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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