§ The result
Vervoe leads Cognisess by 16 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Vervoe opens a 16-point lead on Cognisess, 46 to 30, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Vervoe: Vervoe is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Cognisess on Post-Market Monitoring. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 20, Vervoe 52, 18% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage Vervoe 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
Vervoe
AI-powered skills-assessment platform that grades and ranks candidates on performance in role-specific, task-based assessments.
§ The record
Cognisess and Vervoe 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 | Vervoe |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | AU |
| Founded | 2011 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Vervoe 52
5.8 weighted points to Vervoe
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Vervoe 45
4.0 weighted points to Vervoe
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Vervoe 60
2.2 weighted points to Vervoe
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Vervoe 55
1.9 weighted points to Vervoe
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Vervoe 58
1.4 weighted points to Vervoe
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Vervoe 25
0.8 weighted points to Vervoe
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Vervoe 28
0.5 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Vervoe.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Vervoe | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 52 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 46 (F) | -16 | -15.6 |
§ 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 | Vervoe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 15 | 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; Vervoe has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 20 for Vervoe, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vervoe last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next