§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads eSkill on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR finishes 18 points clear of eSkill under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 41 — across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Braintrust AIR takes all 7 criteria and eSkill none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Braintrust AIR 35 to eSkill 30. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 75, eSkill 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, eSkill under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | eSkill |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2003 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · eSkill 25
9.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · eSkill 36
3.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · eSkill 48
2.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · eSkill 47
1.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · eSkill 30
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · eSkill 57
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · eSkill 56
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus eSkill.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | eSkill | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 25 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 47 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 36 | +26 | +3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 56 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 41 (F) | +18 | +17.4 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | eSkill | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and eSkill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next