§ The result
Recruit CRM leads Cognisess on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Recruit CRM sits 10 points above Cognisess under rubric v1.0 — 40 against 30 — with Recruit CRM filed under ATS-integrated and Cognisess under Assessment. Recruit CRM leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Cognisess is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Recruit CRM leads is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Cognisess 25 to Recruit CRM 34. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Cognisess 40, Recruit CRM 60) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is FRIA Support at 15% (Cognisess 20, Recruit CRM 34), 20% of the weighted advantage Recruit CRM builds across the 6 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cognisess is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 20% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Recruit CRM 34
2.1 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Recruit CRM 58
1.9 weighted points to Recruit CRM
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Recruit CRM 34
1.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Recruit CRM 54
1.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Recruit CRM 60
1.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Recruit CRM 42
1.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.4 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 -10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 34 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 34 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 40 (F) | -10 | -10.4 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 30 | 5 | Sources 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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