§ The result
eSkill leads micro1 by 5 points.
eSkill scores 41 and micro1 36 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of eSkill: eSkill is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and micro1 on Article 11 Technical Documentation. Even Post-Market Monitoring, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (eSkill 36, micro1 25, 12% weight), is only 23% 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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, micro1 under Screening 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 | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2003 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · micro1 25
1.3 weighted points to eSkill
15% weight · 41% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · micro1 22
1.2 weighted points to eSkill
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · micro1 48
1.1 weighted points to eSkill
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · micro1 20
0.9 weighted points to eSkill
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · micro1 45
0.9 weighted points to eSkill
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · micro1 50
0.4 weighted points to micro1
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · micro1 45
0.3 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 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 +5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 45 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 48 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 36 (F) | +5 | +5.3 |
§ 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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for eSkill and micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next