§ The result
Beamery leads Versant by Pearson by 12 points.
Beamery sits 12 points above Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 49 (F) — with Beamery filed under Sourcing and Versant by Pearson under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Beamery, with 1 level: Beamery is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Versant by Pearson on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Beamery 85, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage Beamery holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Beamery
Talent CRM and sourcing platform that maintains a long-lived candidate pipeline, with AI-driven matching and skills inference.
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
Beamery is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Beamery | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2013 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Beamery 85 · Versant by Pearson 42
7.7 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Beamery 60 · Versant by Pearson 43
2.0 weighted points to Beamery
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Beamery 70 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.4 weighted points to Beamery
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Beamery 60 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.1 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Beamery 55 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Beamery 60 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Beamery minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Beamery | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 63 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 42 | +43 | +7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 43 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 49 (F) | +12 | +12.0 |
§ 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 | Beamery | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Beamery has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 Beamery and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Beamery, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Beamery last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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