§ The result
X0PA AI leads eSkill on 6 of the 7 criteria.
X0PA AI finishes 7 points ahead of eSkill under rubric v1.0, 48 to 41, both scored as Assessment entries. X0PA AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so eSkill is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 X0PA AI leads is Article 11 Technical Documentation, eSkill 48 to X0PA AI 50. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (eSkill 25, X0PA AI 44) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage X0PA AI holds 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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
§ The record
eSkill and X0PA AI are both filed under Assessment 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 | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2003 | 2017 |
§ 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 · X0PA AI 44
3.4 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · X0PA AI 56
1.3 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · X0PA AI 38
1.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · X0PA AI 40
0.5 weighted points to X0PA AI
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · X0PA AI 50
0.4 weighted points to X0PA AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · X0PA AI 60
0.3 weighted points to X0PA AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -7.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 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 -7.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus X0PA AI.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 44 | -19 | -3.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 56 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 57 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 40 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 48 (F) | -7 | -7.2 |
§ 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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for eSkill and X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next