§ The result
Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Pymetrics (Harver Games) scores 56 to 30 for Cognisess, a 26-point gap between two Assessment entries. Of the 7 criteria Cognisess wins none, and the narrowest lead Pymetrics (Harver Games) holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cognisess 20, Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) 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
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
§ The record
Cognisess and Pymetrics (Harver Games) are both filed under Assessment 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80
10.8 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70
9.0 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 60
2.7 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55
1.2 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50
1.0 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 25
0.8 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35
0.4 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -25.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 25.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -26 beside that -25.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Pymetrics (Harver Games).
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 70 | -45 | -9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 80 | -60 | -10.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 56 (F) | -26 | -25.8 |
§ 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate 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 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | 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; Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Pymetrics (Harver Games) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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