§ The result
The Predictive Index leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
The Predictive Index finishes 18 points clear of Cognisess inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 48 against 30. Cognisess leads none of the 7 criteria, and The Predictive Index is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 25, The Predictive Index 50, 20% weight), is only 28% of the weighted advantage The Predictive Index 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
The Predictive Index
The Predictive Index provides validated behavioral and cognitive psychometric assessments used to screen, hire, and develop employees and design teams, alongside AI-assisted talent-management software.
§ The record
Cognisess and The Predictive Index are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | The Predictive Index |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 1955 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · The Predictive Index 50
5.0 weighted points to The Predictive Index
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · The Predictive Index 45
4.5 weighted points to The Predictive Index
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · The Predictive Index 35
2.3 weighted points to The Predictive Index
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · The Predictive Index 55
1.9 weighted points to The Predictive Index
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · The Predictive Index 60
1.6 weighted points to The Predictive Index
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · The Predictive Index 43
1.3 weighted points to The Predictive Index
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · The Predictive Index 52
1.2 weighted points to The Predictive Index
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -17.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus The Predictive Index.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | The Predictive Index | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 45 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 43 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 48 (F) | -18 | -17.8 |
§ 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 | The Predictive Index | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 18 | 6 | 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; The Predictive Index has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 6 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 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 24 for The Predictive Index, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- The Predictive Index last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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