§ The result
Vincere leads Cognisess by 14 points.
Vincere, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 14 points above Cognisess, filed under Assessment: 44 against 30 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Vincere: Vincere is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cognisess on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cognisess 25, Vincere 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Vincere holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Vincere
Access Vincere Evo is a recruitment-agency CRM and ATS from The Access Group whose Copilot AI scores candidates against a job on a 1-5 star scale, ranks the closest matches from the agency database, and generates job ads, candidate summaries and screening chatbots.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Vincere under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cognisess is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Vincere |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2011 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Vincere 55
6.0 weighted points to Vincere
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Vincere 38
2.7 weighted points to Vincere
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Vincere 55
1.9 weighted points to Vincere
8% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Vincere 60
1.6 weighted points to Vincere
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Vincere 55
1.6 weighted points to Vincere
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Vincere 40
1.0 weighted points to Vincere
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Vincere 18
0.4 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Vincere.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Vincere | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 55 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 18 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 44 (F) | -14 | -14.4 |
§ 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 | Vincere | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate 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 a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Vincere has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess and Vincere sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 32 for Vincere, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vincere last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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