§ The result
4 points separate Dover and eSkill.
Dover holds a 4-point edge over eSkill under rubric v1.0, 45 to 41, across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. eSkill takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for Dover, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dover 52, eSkill 25 — and at an 18% weight it carries 72% of the weighted advantage Dover holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dover
Dover is an AI recruiting platform for startups offering a free applicant tracking system, candidate sourcing via a LinkedIn/Copilot browser extension, OpenAI/Anthropic-powered 0-100 applicant scoring, and a fractional-recruiter marketplace.
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
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, eSkill under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only eSkill is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dover | eSkill |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2003 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · eSkill 25
4.9 weighted points to Dover
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · eSkill 48
2.8 weighted points to eSkill
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · eSkill 36
1.0 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · eSkill 47
0.4 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 60 · eSkill 56
0.3 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · eSkill 57
0.1 weighted points to Dover
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.5 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 +3.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus eSkill.
| Category | Weight | Dover | eSkill | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 48 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 25 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 47 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 36 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 41 (F) | +4 | +3.9 |
§ 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 | Dover | eSkill | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | 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 |
Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 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 Dover and eSkill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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