§ The result
eSkill leads HireQuotient on 6 of the 7 criteria.
eSkill scores 41 and HireQuotient 34 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. eSkill leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so HireQuotient is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 eSkill leads is Post-Market Monitoring, eSkill 36 to HireQuotient 30. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (eSkill 48, HireQuotient 35, 20% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage eSkill builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | eSkill | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2003 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · HireQuotient 35
2.6 weighted points to eSkill
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · HireQuotient 18
1.3 weighted points to eSkill
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · HireQuotient 22
1.2 weighted points to eSkill
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · HireQuotient 40
1.1 weighted points to eSkill
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · HireQuotient 30
0.7 weighted points to eSkill
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · HireQuotient 50
0.5 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 18 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 57 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 34 (F) | +7 | +7.3 |
§ 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 | eSkill | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next