§ The result
Recruitee leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Recruitee, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 12 points above Cognisess, filed under Assessment: 42 against 30 under rubric v1.0. Recruitee takes all 7 criteria from Cognisess without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is FRIA Support, Cognisess 20 to Recruitee 27. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Cognisess 40, Recruitee 58) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cognisess 25, Recruitee 42), the second being 28% of the weighted advantage Recruitee 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
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Recruitee 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 | Recruitee |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
§ 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 · Recruitee 42
3.4 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Recruitee 58
1.9 weighted points to Recruitee
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Recruitee 30
1.8 weighted points to Recruitee
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Recruitee 52
1.5 weighted points to Recruitee
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Recruitee 58
1.4 weighted points to Recruitee
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Recruitee 27
1.1 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Recruitee 40
1.0 weighted points to Recruitee
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Recruitee.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Recruitee | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 27 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 42 (F) | -12 | -12.1 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | 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 | 14 | 7 | 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; Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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