§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads ConverzAI by 5 points.
Versant by Pearson scores 49 and ConverzAI 44 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Versant by Pearson leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while ConverzAI leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (ConverzAI 30, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 59% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
ConverzAI
ConverzAI's Virtual Recruiter is an agentic voice, SMS and email AI agent for staffing firms. It contacts applicants within minutes, runs role-specific screening interviews, scores candidates' fit to open jobs and updates the firm's ATS.
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
ConverzAI 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 | ConverzAI | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ConverzAI 30 · Versant by Pearson 63
6.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ConverzAI 72 · Versant by Pearson 42
5.4 weighted points to ConverzAI
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ConverzAI 40 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.9 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ConverzAI 45 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ConverzAI 45 · Versant by Pearson 61
1.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ConverzAI 50 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.8 weighted points to ConverzAI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.4 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 -4.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ConverzAI minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | ConverzAI | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 63 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 42 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 53 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 61 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 49 (F) | -5 | -4.9 |
§ 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 | ConverzAI | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ConverzAI has 30 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 ConverzAI and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for ConverzAI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ConverzAI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next