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CognitoSage
CognitoSage · in production

Human wisdom,
AI powered.

The agentic hiring platform — built around the moment a decision has to be defended to your board.

“Quietly powerful. Loudly accountable.

CognitoHire runs autonomous AI for sourcing, screening and outreach — then gates every consequential call behind a critic and a human. Cited evidence on each score. Bias audited before publication. Self-hosted or managed, so candidate data never leaves your control. Zero per-query AI cost. First defensible shortlist in under 60 seconds.

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Candidate evaluation · liveREQ-2048 · 312 applied
MR
Maya Rodriguez
Senior Backend Engineer
Python at scale96
Distributed systems89
Team leadership · IC482
Fintech domain41
Why this score
7 years Python at scale — exceeds requirement
Led 3-person team — matches IC4 signal
No fintech background — preferred, not required
Ranked in 0.8s · evidence cited
Outcomes the platform produces
50%faster time-to-hire
99.9%match accuracy
0unexplained scores
Who we serve

Built for the people who carry hiring on their shoulders.

Four audiences. Four sales pitches. Same defensible platform underneath.

CEOs & Boards

AI you can defend in the boardroom.

Predictable hiring economics. Every score auditable. Compliance built in, not bolted on.

CHROs & TA leads

Scale hiring without losing the human.

Bias-checked at the JD. Human-in-the-loop at the edges. Reporting that satisfies legal and the board.

Recruiters

Less paperwork. More conversations.

AI screens. You judge. WhatsApp, email, and job boards unified in one queue. Reasoning attached to every shortlist.

Consultants & agencies

White-label. Multi-tenant. Yours.

Per-client tenancy. Usage-metered billing. Agency-grade segmentation. Bill in INR, USD, or EUR — one codebase.

How it works

From job description to defensible shortlist — in five steps.

No black box between the JD and the offer. Every stage is visible, every decision is reviewed, and a human can step in at any point.

1

JD posted

Bias auditor checks the JD before it goes live. Flags exclusionary phrasing with citations.

2

AI screens

768-dim semantic matching ranks every candidate. Evidence cited for each score.

3

Critic reviews

A second LLM reviews every consequential action. Confidence below 65 pauses for a human.

4

Human decides

Recruiter sees the shortlist with full reasoning. Overrides anything. Every choice logged.

5

Hire, defensible

Every step in the audit trail. Defensible to a candidate, a board, or a regulator.

What shipped

Quietly powerful. Loudly accountable.

The latest release turns CognitoHire from a capable hiring tool into infrastructure your CFO will defend and your recruiters will refuse to give back.

For finance

Quota enforcement that holds.

Usage limits actually hold — not just report. No overage surprises at month-end. No retroactive invoice arguments. Plans cap themselves.

For ops

Production-grade readiness probes.

/health/ready and /services. Kubernetes probes that don’t lie. Status dashboards your ops team will actually trust.

For revenue

Razorpay · Stripe · both.

Bill in INR, USD, EUR. Your customer doesn’t change processors. You don’t change codebases. Indian enterprise to US Series-C — same checkout.

For CHROs

Human-in-the-loop, by design.

Routine cases never wait. Edge cases queue to a human with the critic’s full reasoning. Every escalation logged.

For engineering

End-to-end tested.

Every critical journey covered: CV upload, JD parse, bias check, billing rotation. 199 tests passing, zero failing. Not a number on a slide — a number in CI.

For sanity

Self-diagnosing platform.

One command — diagnose.py — tells you exactly what’s wrong before ops has to ask. Postgres, Redis, Ollama, storage, migrations — all probed.

"Multi-tenant. Multi-channel. Multi-currency. One platform you don’t have to apologise for in front of your auditor."

See it in action
CognitoHire architecture

Five core modules. One platform that now runs the whole desk.

The five accountable engines below sit at the centre — and around them, the platform adds a built-in CRM, semantic talent sourcing, workflow automation, talent pools & nurture, reporting, and an open API with signed webhooks. Sourcing to placement, on one governed surface.

01
Lifecycle

CognitoHire ATS

The applicant tracking surface. From JD draft to offer letter. CV in. Ranked shortlist out. Reasoning attached.

02
Considered automation

CognitoChat

Talk to your ATS in plain English. LangGraph supervisor decides. Critic LLM reviews. Never silently confident.

03
Semantic engine

CognitoScreen

768-dim semantic matching, not keyword filtering. Bias auditor on every JD. Evidence cited for every score.

04
Trust layer

DeepTrust

Deepfake-resistant video verification. Synthetic profile detection. Credential cross-checking. Vendor-agnostic LLM core.

05
Pipeline truth

CognitoView

Funnel velocity. Source quality. Bias reporting that satisfies legal. Predictive hiring success scores.

Why CognitoSage

Three things every other
AI vendor refuses to commit to.

01

No black-box scores.

Every score has reasoning attached. Every reason cites the evidence. Your legal team will thank you. Your candidates will respect you. Your board will defend you.

02

Compliance as a floor.

GDPR-ready, CCPA-aligned, with data-residency you control via self-hosting. SOC 2 on the roadmap. DPIA-ready out of the box — designed for regulated hiring, not retrofitted.

03

Privacy-first by design.

Run on-prem with local LLMs — Ollama-native. Candidate data never leaves your perimeter unless you choose. Zero per-query API cost forever.

Why teams put it in front of the board
The first hiring AI built to be defended, not just trusted — every score carries cited evidence, and every consequential decision is gated by a human.
CS
The CognitoSage principle
Audit-grade by design · now in early access for design partners

Built so compliance is the floor, not an afterthought — self-hosting keeps regulated data inside your perimeter.

GDPR-ready Data residency CCPA-aligned Self-hosted option SOC 2 · on roadmap
The cost of doing nothing

What manual screening is quietly costing you.

Drag the slider to your monthly CV volume. The maths updates live — and it’s yours to keep.

500
181recruiter hours saved every month
£76,020annual saving (UK, recruiter @ £35/hr)
$108,600annual saving (US, recruiter @ $50/hr)

Modelled on ~191 recruiter hours per 500 CVs screened manually, reduced to under 10 with CognitoHire’s semantic engine. Run it on your real roles →

Talk to us

Hire the people you’ll
still be right about in five years.

A 30-minute demo on your live job descriptions. No NDA required. No upsell. No slides over 12. First defensible shortlist within 24 hours of kickoff.