§ The result
Pinpoint leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Pinpoint (ATS-integrated) and Cognisess (Assessment): 57 for Pinpoint, 30 for Cognisess. Pinpoint leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Cognisess leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 25, Pinpoint 72, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint 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
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Pinpoint 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 | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | JE |
| Founded | 2011 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Pinpoint 72
9.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Pinpoint 42
4.0 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Pinpoint 68
3.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Pinpoint 38
2.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Pinpoint 64
2.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Pinpoint 52
2.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Pinpoint 66
2.1 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -27.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.1 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 -27.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 72 | -47 | -9.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 68 | -26 | -3.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 64 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 52 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 66 | -26 | -2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 57 (F) | -27 | -27.1 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 18 | 2 | 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; Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 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 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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