§ The result
RecruitBot leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
RecruitBot scores 37 and Cognisess 30 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. RecruitBot is ahead of Cognisess on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Cognisess 20 to RecruitBot 22. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Cognisess 40, RecruitBot 55) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cognisess 25, RecruitBot 33), 23% of the weighted advantage RecruitBot 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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing 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 | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · RecruitBot 33
1.6 weighted points to RecruitBot
8% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · RecruitBot 55
1.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · RecruitBot 27
1.1 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · RecruitBot 50
1.0 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · RecruitBot 40
1.0 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · RecruitBot 48
0.9 weighted points to RecruitBot
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · RecruitBot 22
0.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 27 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 37 (F) | -7 | -7.0 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 25 | 6 | 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next