§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Versant by Pearson sits 11 points above Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 38 — with Versant by Pearson filed under Assessment and Arya by Leoforce under Sourcing. Of the 7 criteria Arya by Leoforce wins none, and the narrowest lead Versant by Pearson holds is on Bias Audit Transparency, Arya by Leoforce 40 to Versant by Pearson 42. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 58% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Arya by Leoforce
Leoforce's AI agents, successors to its long-running Arya matching platform, source candidates from a proprietary talent database, job boards and customers' ATS records, score and rank them for fit, engage them by email and SMS, prescreen career-site visitors and deliver pre-vetted, interview-ready applicants.
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
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Versant by Pearson 63
6.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Versant by Pearson 61
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Versant by Pearson 42
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 63 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 53 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 43 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 61 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 49 (F) | -11 | -11.5 |
§ 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 | Arya by Leoforce | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | 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% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Arya by Leoforce has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 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 Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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