§ The result
Sense leads eSkill on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sense (Screening) opens a 17-point lead on eSkill (Assessment), 58 to 41. Of the 7 criteria eSkill wins none, and the narrowest lead Sense holds is on Customer Documentation, eSkill 56 to Sense 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — eSkill 25, Sense 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, Sense under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only eSkill is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | eSkill | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2003 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Sense 72
8.5 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Sense 60
2.4 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Sense 52
1.9 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Sense 58
1.6 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · Sense 38
1.2 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Sense 64
0.8 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Sense 62
0.5 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 72 | -47 | -8.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 58 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 64 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 52 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 58 (F) | -17 | -16.9 |
§ 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 | eSkill | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for eSkill and Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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