§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 26 points between Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) and Cognisess (Assessment): 56 for Workday Recruiting AI, 30 for Cognisess. Workday Recruiting AI leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Cognisess leads none. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cognisess 25, Workday Recruiting AI 70, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cognisess is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2005 |
§ 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 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
9.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
7.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
2.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
2.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
2.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.9 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -25.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 25.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -26 beside that -25.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 70 | -45 | -9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 60 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 65 | -23 | -2.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 65 | -25 | -2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 56 (F) | -26 | -25.5 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next