§ The result
4 points separate Cangrade and eSkill.
Cangrade holds a 4-point edge over eSkill under rubric v1.0, 45 to 41, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. eSkill takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for Cangrade, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cangrade 35, eSkill 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Cangrade holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
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
Cangrade and eSkill are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | eSkill |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2003 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · eSkill 25
1.8 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · eSkill 47
1.1 weighted points to Cangrade
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · eSkill 48
0.8 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · eSkill 36
0.5 weighted points to eSkill
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · eSkill 56
0.5 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · eSkill 57
0.1 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus eSkill.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | eSkill | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 47 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 36 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 41 (F) | +4 | +3.5 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | eSkill | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 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 Cangrade and eSkill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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