§ The result
Bryq leads Versant by Pearson by 8 points.
Bryq scores 57 and Versant by Pearson 49 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. Versant by Pearson takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for Bryq, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 70, Versant by Pearson 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring 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
Bryq and Versant by Pearson are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Versant by Pearson 42
5.0 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.5 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.4 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.3 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.4 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 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 +7.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 63 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 42 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 43 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 61 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 49 (F) | +8 | +7.7 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | 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 |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 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 Bryq and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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