§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Versant by Pearson by 10 points.
Braintrust AIR sits 10 points above Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 49 — with Braintrust AIR filed under Screening and Versant by Pearson under Assessment. Braintrust AIR leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Versant by Pearson leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 75, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 58% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
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
Braintrust AIR 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, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Versant by Pearson 42
5.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Versant by Pearson 43
2.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 42 | +33 | +5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 53 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 43 | +19 | +2.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 61 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 49 (F) | +10 | +9.3 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | 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 |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 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 Braintrust AIR and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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