§ The result
Toggl Hire leads Cognisess on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Toggl Hire scores 37 and Cognisess 30 under rubric v1.0 — a 7-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. Cognisess is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Toggl Hire takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to Toggl Hire 35. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 42, Toggl Hire 55, 15% weight), is only 29% of the weighted advantage Toggl Hire builds across the 6 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
Toggl Hire
Toggl Hire is a skills-first hiring platform (now being retired) that screens candidates with auto-graded skills tests, async video interviews and homework assignments, bundled with a lightweight ATS.
§ The record
Cognisess and Toggl Hire 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 | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | EE |
| Founded | 2011 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Toggl Hire 55
1.9 weighted points to Toggl Hire
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Toggl Hire 30
1.5 weighted points to Toggl Hire
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Toggl Hire 52
1.2 weighted points to Toggl Hire
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Toggl Hire 30
1.0 weighted points to Toggl Hire
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Toggl Hire 50
0.8 weighted points to Toggl Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Toggl Hire 35
0.4 weighted points to Toggl Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 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 -6.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Toggl Hire.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Toggl Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 37 (F) | -7 | -6.8 |
§ 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 | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 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 | 10 | 4 | 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; Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 4 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 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next