§ The result
Oracle Recruiting leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Oracle Recruiting finishes 19 points clear of Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 30 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Oracle Recruiting takes all 7 criteria and Cognisess none of them; the nearest contest is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to Oracle Recruiting 40. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 25, Oracle Recruiting 60, 20% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage Oracle Recruiting 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
Oracle Recruiting
Oracle Recruiting (part of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, formerly Oracle Recruiting Cloud) is an enterprise applicant tracking system whose embedded AI suggests and ranks candidates, finds similar candidates, and generates 0-5 generative-AI match ratings against job requisitions to assist recruiters.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Oracle Recruiting 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 | Oracle Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Oracle Recruiting 60
7.0 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Oracle Recruiting 60
2.7 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Oracle Recruiting 35
2.3 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Oracle Recruiting 60
2.2 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
18% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Oracle Recruiting 30
1.8 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Oracle Recruiting 62
1.8 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Oracle Recruiting 40
1.0 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Oracle Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Oracle Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 60 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 49 (F) | -19 | -18.6 |
§ 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 | Oracle Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 4 | 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; Oracle Recruiting has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 16 for Oracle Recruiting, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Oracle Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next