§ The result
2 points separate BrightHire and Versant by Pearson.
BrightHire holds a 2-point edge over Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0, 51 to 49, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Versant by Pearson takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for BrightHire, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Versant by Pearson — BrightHire 52, Versant by Pearson 63, on a 20% weight — which is 95% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire 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 | BrightHire | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Versant by Pearson 63
2.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Versant by Pearson 42
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.5 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 63 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 43 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 49 (F) | +2 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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