§ The result
Sapia.ai leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sapia.ai scores 56 to 30 for Cognisess, a 26-point gap between two Assessment entries. Sapia.ai leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Cognisess leads none. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 25, Sapia.ai 70, 20% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage Sapia.ai 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
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
§ The record
Cognisess and Sapia.ai are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Sapia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | AU |
| Founded | 2011 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Sapia.ai 70
9.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Sapia.ai 52
5.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Sapia.ai 62
3.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Sapia.ai 62
2.4 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Sapia.ai 35
2.3 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Sapia.ai 50
2.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Sapia.ai 62
1.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -26.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.3 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 -26.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Sapia.ai.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Sapia.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 70 | -45 | -9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 52 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 50 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 56 (F) | -26 | -26.3 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | 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; Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Sapia.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next