§ The result
4 points separate Versant by Pearson and Clevry.
Versant by Pearson holds a 4-point edge over Clevry under rubric v1.0, 49 to 45, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. Clevry takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for Versant by Pearson, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Versant by Pearson (Clevry 52, Versant by Pearson 63), 48% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Post-Market Monitoring, Clevry 30 to Versant by Pearson 43.
Vendor profile
Clevry
Clevry is a UK psychometric assessment platform offering norm-referenced personality questionnaires, cognitive ability tests and situational judgement tests, plus recorded one-way video interviews, an interview builder, a skills-first ATS and an AI tool that maps job ads onto its personality scale library.
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
Clevry and Versant by Pearson are both filed under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Clevry | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 1991 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Clevry 52 · Versant by Pearson 63
2.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Clevry 30 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Clevry 38 · Versant by Pearson 42
0.7 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Clevry 55 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.3 weighted points to Clevry
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Clevry 58 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.2 weighted points to Clevry
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Clevry 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 -4.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Clevry minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Clevry | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 63 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 53 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 43 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 49 (F) | -4 | -4.0 |
§ 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 | Clevry | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 7 | 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% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 39 | 5 | 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 |
Clevry has 44 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 39 with a source URL, 5 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 Clevry and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 44 for Clevry, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Clevry last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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