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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"eSkill: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eskill/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eskill/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eskill.md",
  "title": "eSkill: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "eSkill is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 26, 2026.",
  "period": "Aug. 26 to Oct. 26, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://www.eskill.com/",
    "summary": "\"Comprehensive tests for hiring.\" Pre-hire skills testing platform with 600+ subjects and 70,000+ questions, cognitive and behavioral tests, one-way interviews and AI-powered proctoring. Linea, its AI layer launched August 2026 on Anthropic Claude models, builds role assessments from a job description; Linea Sample, launched October 2026, adds scored contact-center work simulations. Scaleworks bought eSkill in July 2024. It serves 1,000+ organizations, including manufacturing employers.",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Comprehensive tests for hiring.\" Pre-hire skills testing platform with 600+ subjects and 70,000+ questions, cognitive and behavioral tests, one-way interviews and AI-powered proctoring. Linea, its AI layer launched August 2026 on Anthropic Claude models, builds role assessments from a job description; Linea Sample, launched October 2026, adds scored contact-center work simulations. Scaleworks bought eSkill in July 2024. It serves 1,000+ organizations, including manufacturing employers.",
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      "category": "Skills assessments",
      "what": "\"Comprehensive tests for hiring.\" Pre-hire skills testing platform with 600+ subjects and 70,000+ questions, cognitive and behavioral tests, one-way interviews and AI-powered proctoring. Linea, its AI layer launched August 2026 on Anthropic Claude models, builds role assessments from a job description; Linea Sample, launched October 2026, adds scored contact-center work simulations. Scaleworks bought eSkill in July 2024. It serves 1,000+ organizations, including manufacturing employers.",
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      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eskill/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "eSkill launches Linea Sample contact-center simulation",
      "summary": "Linea Sample places candidates in a text or voice customer interaction and scores them on weighted rubric dimensions, for contact centers and BPOs.",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/eskill/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-08-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "eSkill launches Linea AI layer on Claude",
      "summary": "Linea Build and Linea Search create role assessments from eSkill's question library; Linea \"runs on large language models from Anthropic's Claude family\" and no candidate personal data passes through it.",
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