§ The result
PageUp leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
PageUp (ATS-integrated) and Cognisess (Assessment) are 34 points apart under rubric v1.0, 64 (D) for PageUp against 30 (F) for Cognisess. On every one of the 7 criteria PageUp scores 20 raw points or more above Cognisess, which leads none of them. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 20, PageUp 80, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage PageUp 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
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, PageUp 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 | PageUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | AU |
| Founded | 2011 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · PageUp 80
10.8 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · PageUp 74
9.8 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · PageUp 63
3.1 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · PageUp 40
3.0 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · PageUp 55
2.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · PageUp 64
2.6 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · PageUp 63
1.8 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -34.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 34.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -34 beside that -34.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus PageUp.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | PageUp | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 74 | -49 | -9.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 80 | -60 | -10.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 63 | -21 | -3.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 64 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 55 | -23 | -2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 63 | -23 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 64 (D) | -34 | -34.0 |
§ 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 | PageUp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 24 | 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; PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and PageUp 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 PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next