§ The result
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting (ATS-integrated) opens a 23-point lead on Cognisess (Assessment), 53 to 30. Cognisess leads none of the 7 criteria, and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cognisess 25, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 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
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | DE |
| Founded | 2011 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
9.0 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
3.6 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
2.7 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
2.4 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
2.3 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
1.8 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
1.0 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -22.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 70 | -45 | -9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 53 (F) | -23 | -22.7 |
§ 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 17 | 5 | 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; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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