§ The result
Talkpush leads eSkill by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Talkpush, filed under Screening, finishes on 46 and eSkill, filed under Assessment, on 41, 5 points apart. eSkill takes 3 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 4 for Talkpush, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — eSkill 25, Talkpush 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage Talkpush holds across the 4 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, Talkpush under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | eSkill | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2003 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Talkpush 42
3.1 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Talkpush 46
1.2 weighted points to Talkpush
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Talkpush 52
0.8 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · Talkpush 27
0.4 weighted points to eSkill
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Talkpush 44
0.4 weighted points to eSkill
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Talkpush 60
0.3 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Talkpush 56
0.1 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.4 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 -4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 44 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 46 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 46 (F) | -5 | -4.4 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 7 | 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for eSkill and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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