§ The result
Talview leads Cognisess on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Talview, filed under Video interview, comes out 12 points above Cognisess, filed under Assessment: 42 against 30 under rubric v1.0. Cognisess is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Talview takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Cognisess 20 to Talview 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cognisess 25, Talview 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Talview holds across the 6 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
Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Talview under Video interview 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 | Talview |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2012 |
§ 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 · Talview 50
5.0 weighted points to Talview
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Talview 38
3.2 weighted points to Talview
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Talview 55
1.6 weighted points to Talview
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Talview 52
1.0 weighted points to Talview
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Talview 48
0.9 weighted points to Talview
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Talview 25
0.8 weighted points to Talview
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 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 -12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Talview.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Talview | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 42 (F) | -12 | -12.4 |
§ 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 | Talview | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 11 | 6 | 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; Talview has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 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 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 17 for Talview, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talview last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next