§ The result
Dayforce leads eSkill on all 7 criteria.
Dayforce finishes 16 points clear of eSkill under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 41 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Dayforce takes all 7 criteria and eSkill none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Dayforce 40 to eSkill 30. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Dayforce 74, eSkill 48, 20% weight), is only 33% of the weighted advantage Dayforce builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
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
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, eSkill under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only eSkill is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dayforce | eSkill |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 2003 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · eSkill 48
5.2 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · eSkill 25
3.1 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · eSkill 47
2.4 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · eSkill 30
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · eSkill 57
1.3 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · eSkill 36
1.3 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · eSkill 56
1.1 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus eSkill.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | eSkill | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 48 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 47 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 57 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 36 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 56 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 41 (F) | +16 | +15.9 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | eSkill | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 eSkill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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