§ The result
Emmersion leads DevSkiller by 5 points.
Emmersion scores 44 and DevSkiller 39 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. DevSkiller takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for Emmersion, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — DevSkiller 35, Emmersion 57 — and at a 20% weight it carries 69% of the weighted advantage Emmersion holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
DevSkiller
DevSkiller (now branded SkillPanel) provides technical skills assessment and coding tests that automatically score developer candidates on real-world work-sample tasks using hidden verification unit tests and static code analysis.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
§ The record
DevSkiller and Emmersion are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | DevSkiller | Emmersion |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | PL | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
DevSkiller 35 · Emmersion 57
4.4 weighted points to Emmersion
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
DevSkiller 22 · Emmersion 28
1.1 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
DevSkiller 25 · Emmersion 30
0.8 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
DevSkiller 52 · Emmersion 50
0.3 weighted points to DevSkiller
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
DevSkiller 55 · Emmersion 53
0.2 weighted points to DevSkiller
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
DevSkiller 40 · Emmersion 38
0.2 weighted points to DevSkiller
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
DevSkiller 58 · Emmersion 60
0.2 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is DevSkiller minus Emmersion.
| Category | Weight | DevSkiller | Emmersion | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 57 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 53 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 44 (F) | -5 | -5.6 |
§ 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 | DevSkiller | Emmersion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 4 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
DevSkiller has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for DevSkiller and Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for DevSkiller, across 2 distinct source domains, and 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- DevSkiller last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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