§ The result
Pillar leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Pillar, filed under Screening, comes out 10 points above Cognisess, filed under Assessment: 40 against 30 under rubric v1.0. Pillar takes all 7 criteria from Cognisess without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to Pillar 33. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Cognisess 20, Pillar 38) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cognisess 25, Pillar 42), the second being 33% of the weighted advantage Pillar 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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Pillar under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Pillar 42
3.4 weighted points to Pillar
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Pillar 38
3.2 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Pillar 30
1.5 weighted points to Pillar
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Pillar 50
0.8 weighted points to Pillar
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Pillar 48
0.7 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Pillar 45
0.4 weighted points to Pillar
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Pillar 33
0.1 weighted points to Pillar
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 40 (F) | -10 | -10.2 |
§ 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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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