§ The result
TestDome leads Cognisess by 7 points.
Inside the Assessment cohort, rubric v1.0 puts TestDome on 37 and Cognisess on 30, 7 points apart. TestDome leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Cognisess leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Cognisess 40, TestDome 60) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cognisess 25, TestDome 40), 37% of the weighted advantage TestDome builds across the 5 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
TestDome
TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
§ The record
Cognisess and TestDome 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 | TestDome |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | HR |
| Founded | 2011 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · TestDome 40
3.0 weighted points to TestDome
8% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · TestDome 60
1.6 weighted points to TestDome
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · TestDome 28
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · TestDome 50
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · TestDome 52
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · TestDome 15
0.9 weighted points to Cognisess
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · TestDome 30
0.2 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 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 -7.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus TestDome.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | TestDome | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 15 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 37 (F) | -7 | -7.1 |
§ 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 | TestDome | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 27 | 5 | 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; TestDome has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 31 for TestDome, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestDome last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next