§ The result
Testlify leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Testlify opens a 15-point lead on Cognisess, 45 to 30, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. Testlify leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cognisess none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Cognisess 20 to Testlify 30. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 25, Testlify 52, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage Testlify 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
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
Cognisess and Testlify 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 | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Testlify 52
5.4 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Testlify 33
1.9 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Testlify 55
1.9 weighted points to Testlify
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Testlify 30
1.8 weighted points to Testlify
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Testlify 60
1.6 weighted points to Testlify
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Testlify 55
1.6 weighted points to Testlify
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Testlify 42
1.2 weighted points to Testlify
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 52 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 45 (F) | -15 | -15.5 |
§ 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 | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next