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CognitoHire — AI Recruitment Platform

One Platform.
Four Intelligent Modules.

Built under Cognitosage — runs in your infrastructure or ours, works on day one. No external API costs. Zero per-query billing. Complete data sovereignty in both deployment models.

ATS — Live Now AI Screening — Live Now Analytics — Live Now DeepTrust — Coming Soon
☁️Managed Cloud | 🛪Self-Hosted | Same platform. Same intelligence. Your choice.
CognitoHire ATS AI Screening DeepTrust Analytics vs Traditional ATS Pricing Roadmap
The Problem

The Problem With Modern Recruiting Is Not the People. It Is the Systems.

Most organisations are running hiring processes built for a different era. Manual CV review. Keyword-based shortlisting. Gut-feel decisions. No reliable way to verify who candidates actually are.

The result is slow, expensive, inconsistent — and increasingly vulnerable to fraud that most platforms cannot detect. CognitoHire was built to change all of that. Not incrementally — fundamentally.

“CognitoHire is the only AI recruitment platform that delivers semantic candidate intelligence, bias detection, and AI-native fraud verification — deployable on your infrastructure or ours, with no per-query API costs and complete data sovereignty in either model.”

$17K
Avg cost of a bad hire
85%
Credential fraud never detected
23h
Recruiter hours lost per hire
1 in 6
Applicants fabricate credentials
Live Now

CognitoHire ATS

A next-generation applicant tracking system that manages your entire hiring lifecycle — from job creation and candidate sourcing to interview coordination and offer management. Resume in. Ranked shortlist out. Under 60 seconds.

📥 INGEST Email·Folder·Upload 🔐 AUTH Gateway·Logic ⚙️ PROCESS Validate·Dedup 🧠 AI ENGINE Parse·Embed·LLM 🎯 MATCH Semantic 0–100 SHORTLIST Ranked·Explained End-to-end in under 60 seconds

Three Ingestion Modes. One Unified Pipeline.

Every resume source — unified, deduplicated, and ranked automatically.

📁

Folder Watch

Drop resumes into any local or network folder. CognitoHire detects new files instantly and begins processing — no clicks, no imports. Configure per folder: target JDs, scoring weights, minimum threshold.

✉️

Email Ingestion

Connect Gmail, Outlook or any IMAP inbox. Attachments extracted and parsed the moment they arrive. Full processing log per email and attachment.

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Manual Upload

Drag-and-drop from the recruiter dashboard. Batch upload supported. Profile ready in under 60 seconds. Source tagged to the submitting recruiter automatically.

Three-Layer Duplicate Detection

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Layer 1 — File Hash

Byte-for-byte identical file caught instantly regardless of source.

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Layer 2 — Email Match

Same candidate, different source or file format — still caught.

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Layer 3 — Phone Match

Same candidate, different email address — still identified.

Duplicate applications account for 15–20% of high-volume pipelines. CognitoHire eliminates them before they cost your team a single minute.

Complete Candidate Intelligence — Automatically

  • Skills inventory, experience calculated from actual dates
  • Employment history with timeline verification
  • Quality confidence score — incomplete profiles flagged
  • Source attribution — full pipeline analytics
End-to-End in Under 60 Seconds
① INGEST Email · Folder Upload · Portal ② VALIDATE Magic bytes · 3-layer dedup ③ AI ENGINE LLaMA 3.2 parse 768-dim embed ④ MATCH pgvector cosine Score 0–100 ⑤ SHORTLIST Ranked · Scored Explained ✓ End-to-end processing time: under 60 seconds per candidate
Live Now

AI Screening Engine

Not keyword search. Semantic intelligence. CognitoHire understands what candidates mean — not just what they wrote.

CANDIDATE CV "Critical Care Specialist" 8 yrs ICU · BSN Critical Procedures Patient Assessment 768-dim VECTOR Meaning · Context Intent · Relationships MATCH RESULT 94 out of 100 JD requires: "ICU Nurse RN" ✓ Critical care = ICU nursing ✓ Specialist = RN clinical role ✓ 8 yrs experience matches req.
Configurable Scoring Weights — Per JD Per Role
Skills
40%
Experience
30%
Location
20%
Education
10%

A fintech weights experience at 50%. A law firm weights education at 30%. Same engine — tuned to your world, not ours.

Semantic Vector Matching

Converts both resumes and JDs into 768-dimension mathematical representations of meaning. Similarity computed across context, relationships, and intent — not text.

“Finds the ICU nurse whose CV says 'critical care specialist.' Matches the CFO who wrote 'P&L ownership' to the JD asking for 'financial management.' Finds the JVM engineer when the JD says Java developer.”

Bias Detection — Standard. Every JD. Every Time.

Scans for language proven to deter qualified candidates. Plain-English replacement recommendations before any candidate sees the role. 42% more diverse applicant pools with zero change to hiring standards.

Output Per Candidate

  • Score 0–100 with precision ranking
  • Plain-English explanation of match quality
  • Criteria met and missed breakdown
  • Auto-threshold filtering and one-click shortlist
Coming Soon

AI Screening Questions — generated fresh per JD, bias-checked, legally defensible.

Enterprise Add-OnComing Soon

CognitoHire DeepTrust

The candidate looked real. Interviewed well. Did not exist. A single deepfaked employee cost one firm $25 million. DeepTrust is the AI layer that runs before your recruiter opens a single profile.

CognitoHire DeepTrust — Verification Engine CANDIDATE PROFILE 👤 ⚠ AI-GENERATED Name: J. Smith Experience: "10 years" ⚠ Calculated: 6.2 yrs Roles: 4 positions ⚠ Dates overlap 14mo ⚠ Company unverifiable RISK ANALYSIS Photo Authenticity 90% Timeline Integrity 80% Credential Validity 70% Video Authenticity 60% HIGH RISK Overall Score: 85% RECRUITER ALERT 🚨 Synthetic Identity Detected • AI-generated photo • 14mo timeline overlap • Unverifiable employer • Fabricated credentials DO NOT PROCEED Flagged before recruiter review

85% of credential fraud in hiring is never detected — because the tools designed to catch it do not exist inside most hiring platforms. DeepTrust changes that. It validates, scores, and flags every candidate against advanced fraud detection models that run entirely within your infrastructure.

Average cost of a single fraudulent hire: £47,000 — before it is caught.

This is not a background check. It is a real-time AI layer that runs before your recruiter opens a profile. By the time they are reviewing a candidate — the risk level is already assessed, documented, and attached.

Enterprise founding access is being reserved for early clients. Once capacity is filled, new deployments join a waitlist. Reserve your access now →

🔍 Credential Risk Scoring

Vague, unverifiable, or inconsistent employment history flagged automatically. Low / Medium / High rating on every candidate profile before recruiter review.

⏱️ Timeline Verification

Overlapping roles, impossible date ranges, suspiciously round tenures — all surfaced with full detail before a recruiter spends a single minute on that profile.

🎭 Profile Photo Analysis

AI-generated and manipulated candidate images detected at point of upload — before any human sees them. Synthetic identity fraud caught at the first touchpoint.

🎥 Video Interview Screening

Synthetic facial movement, lip-sync anomalies, and audio inconsistencies flagged in recorded interviews.

⚡ Real-Time Recruiter Alerts

Instant notification when a high-confidence synthetic identity signal is detected — with supporting evidence attached.

🔄 Continuous Model Retraining

Deepfake techniques evolve weekly. DeepTrust models are continuously retrained via enterprise MLOps — always ahead of the threat.

Coming Soon — All Tiers

CognitoHire Analytics

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it. Most organisations discover 70% of their best candidates are coming from one source — and wasting budget on three others. Analytics shows you that in your first week.

CognitoHire Analytics — Live Dashboard Active Roles 24 ↑ 3 CVs This Week 847 ↑ 12% Shortlisted 163 ↑ 8% Avg Time-to-Shortlist 18 min ↓ 34% CVs by Source — This Month Email LinkedIn Folder Referral Portal Agency Other 💡 Insight: Agency delivers 42% of highest-scoring candidates. Email & Folder: 2nd & 3rd. Live Pipeline — Senior Engineer 📥 Ingested 247 🧠 AI Screened 247 ⚖️ Bias Checked 247 ✨ Shortlisted 10 Time saved this week 43.5 hours 🎯 Top Source: Agency channel — 68% match rate · Score avg: 81
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For Recruiters

  • Live pipeline by role and candidate status
  • Filter by score, source, date, recruiter
  • Spot bottlenecks instantly
  • Personal performance dashboard
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For Leadership

  • Volume trends per role, week, source
  • Source performance — best channels
  • Time-to-shortlist reporting
  • Board-ready summaries in seconds
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Export & Reporting

  • One-click CSV or Excel export
  • No data wrangling required
  • Recruiter activity accountability
  • Filters preserved across sessions
Competitive Advantage

Not Another ATS. An Unfair Advantage.

Every gap in this table is a risk your current platform is leaving open.

FeatureTraditional ATSCognitoHire AI Platform
Candidate matchingKeyword search onlySemantic AI — meaning, not just words
Resume ingestionManual upload onlyAutomatic — email · folder · upload
Bias detection✗ None✓ Every JD, every time, standard
AI running costCloud API bills per queryZero per-query cost — runs locally
Scoring customisationFixed global settingsConfigurable per JD per role
Duplicate detectionBasic or noneThree-layer — file · email · phone
Data sovereigntyVendor's cloudYour infrastructure or ours — your data stays yours
Deployment modelSaaS onlyManaged cloud or self-hosted — your choice
Deepfake detection✗ None◆ Coming — CognitoHire DeepTrust
Credential fraud detection✗ None◆ Coming — CognitoHire DeepTrust
Audit trailPartialComplete — every action, every timestamp
ComplianceLimitedGDPR · ISO 27001 · FCA · HIPAA

Every gap in that table is a gap a bad hire, a fraudulent candidate, or a compliance failure can walk through. CognitoHire closes every one.

ROI Calculator

What Is Manual Recruiting Already Costing You?

Move the slider. See your saving in real time.

Your Numbers

502,000+
£20£120

Benchmark: 191 recruiter hours per 500 CVs manually vs under 10 with CognitoHire (LinkedIn Talent Trends, 2024)

Your Saving

Recruiter hours saved / month
181 hrs
Monthly saving
£6,335
Annual saving
£76,020

+ One avoided bad hire at $17,000 (SHRM, 2024) = full annual ROI. One hire.

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Pricing

Priced Around Your Organisation. Not a Fixed Tier Table.

CognitoHire is an enterprise platform. Pricing is structured around your candidate volume, chosen deployment model, and module requirements — because no two organisations hire the same way or at the same scale.

Starter
1–5 recruiters
Up to 500 candidates/mo
10 active JDs
  • CognitoHire ATS — Live
  • AI Screening on launch
  • Analytics on launch
  • DeepTrust
  • Managed cloud or self-hosted
  • Standard SLA
Contact for Pricing
Most Popular
Growth
Mid-size teams
Up to 2,000 candidates/mo
Unlimited JDs
  • CognitoHire ATS — Live
  • AI Screening on launch
  • Analytics on launch
  • DeepTrust
  • Managed cloud or self-hosted
  • Priority SLA
Contact for Pricing
Enterprise
Unlimited scale
Unlimited candidates/mo
Unlimited JDs
  • CognitoHire ATS — Live
  • AI Screening on launch
  • Analytics on launch
  • DeepTrust add-on
  • Managed cloud or self-hosted
  • Dedicated SLA & roadmap input
Scoping Call in 48hrs

🔗 Typically less than the cost of two hours of recruiter time per month  ·  One avoided bad hire pays for an entire year  ·  No per-seat fees  ·  No surprise API costs

Product Roadmap

The Platform Gets Smarter Every Quarter.

Committed milestones. Not aspirations. Enterprise clients joining now co-shape the DeepTrust roadmap.

Live Now ATS · AI Screening Bias Detection 90 Next 90 Days Analytics · DeepTrust Calendar · SMS 12m 6–12 Months Predictive Scores Integrations · Mobile

✓ Live Now

  • AI resume parsing & semantic matching
  • Folder watch, email ingestion & manual upload
  • Three-layer duplicate detection
  • Bias detection on every JD
  • Candidate pipeline & full status lifecycle
  • Role-based access control (Admin · Recruiter · Viewer — API-enforced)
  • Interview management — scheduling, scorecards, stage tracking & SLA alerts
  • Pipeline analytics — funnel, velocity, source quality, skill gap analysis
  • Shortlisting with recruiter notes & pipeline isolation
  • Job queue with async processing & auto-retry

🔄 Next 90 Days

  • CognitoHire AI Screening — all tiers
  • CognitoHire Analytics — dashboards & export
  • CognitoHire DeepTrust — Enterprise
  • Calendar integration
  • WhatsApp & SMS candidate outreach
  • Multi-JD batch processing improvements

🔮 6–12 Months

  • Predictive hiring success scores
  • Multi-language resume support
  • Chrome extension — LinkedIn sourcing
  • ATS integrations — Workday · SAP · Greenhouse
  • Mobile recruiter app
  • Advanced DEI analytics & bias reporting
14-Day Pilot — Zero Commitment

Bring Your Last 3 Open Roles. We Deploy. You Judge the Results.

Real JDs. Real candidates. Ranked shortlists with full AI explanations — on your own data, not a generic demo. Under 24 hours from kickoff to first shortlist.

Start Pilot This Week → 🔐 Managed cloud deployment — no internal setup
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Prove It Works. In 14 Days.

Bring your last three open roles. We deploy. We configure. You get ranked shortlists with full explanations on your own real candidates. Zero commitment.

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