§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Versant by Pearson (Assessment) opens a 17-point lead on Arena Analytics (Screening), 49 to 32. Of the 7 criteria Arena Analytics wins none, and the narrowest lead Versant by Pearson holds is on FRIA Support, Arena Analytics 25 to Versant by Pearson 30. The advantage Versant by Pearson holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arena Analytics 30, Versant by Pearson 63, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Versant by Pearson gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Arena Analytics
Arena scores job applicants, mainly for healthcare and senior-living employers, on how likely they are to show up and stay in a specific role at a specific location, reroutes and sources candidates it rates likely to be retained, and applies the same outcome models to employee flight risk and internal mobility.
Vendor profile
Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Versant by Pearson 63
6.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Versant by Pearson 42
3.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Versant by Pearson 56
2.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Versant by Pearson 61
1.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 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 -17.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 63 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 53 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 56 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 43 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 61 | -23 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 49 (F) | -17 | -17.9 |
§ 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 | Arena Analytics | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Arena Analytics has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next