§ The result
Checkr leads Versant by Pearson by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Checkr, filed under Screening, finishes on 54 and Versant by Pearson, filed under Assessment, on 49, 5 points apart. Versant by Pearson takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Checkr, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (Checkr 66, Versant by Pearson 56) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Checkr 70, Versant by Pearson 63), the second being 25% of the weighted advantage Checkr holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
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
Checkr 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, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Checkr | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 20% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.4 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.3 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · Versant by Pearson 42
1.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.2 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.8 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.6 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.3 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 63 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 56 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 61 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 49 (F) | +5 | +4.4 |
§ 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 | Checkr | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | 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% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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