§ The result
4 points separate Criteria and Versant by Pearson.
Criteria holds a 4-point edge over Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0, 53 to 49, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Criteria, with 1 level: Criteria is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and Versant by Pearson on Post-Market Monitoring. The advantage Criteria holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Criteria 62, Versant by Pearson 53, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 36% of the weighted points Criteria gains across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
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
Criteria 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 | Criteria | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2006 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.3 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Versant by Pearson 42
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.0 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.3 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 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 +3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.9 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 +3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 63 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 56 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 43 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 49 (F) | +4 | +3.5 |
§ 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 | Criteria | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 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 Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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