§ The result
TestGorilla leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, TestGorilla opens a 17-point lead on Cognisess, 47 to 30, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. TestGorilla leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cognisess none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to TestGorilla 38. The advantage TestGorilla holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 25, TestGorilla 52, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 33% of the weighted points TestGorilla gains 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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
Cognisess and TestGorilla are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | NL |
| Founded | 2011 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · TestGorilla 52
5.4 weighted points to TestGorilla
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · TestGorilla 38
3.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · TestGorilla 60
2.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · TestGorilla 56
2.1 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · TestGorilla 30
1.5 weighted points to TestGorilla
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · TestGorilla 58
1.4 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · TestGorilla 38
0.7 weighted points to TestGorilla
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 52 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 47 (F) | -17 | -16.6 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 14 | 5 | Sources 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; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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