§ The result
3 points separate Versant by Pearson and Darwinbox.
Versant by Pearson holds a 3-point edge over Darwinbox under rubric v1.0, 49 to 46, across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Versant by Pearson leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Darwinbox leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 28, Versant by Pearson 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
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
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
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 | Darwinbox | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Versant by Pearson 42
2.5 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Versant by Pearson 63
0.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Versant by Pearson 56
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 -3.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 53 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 43 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 61 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 49 (F) | -3 | -3.8 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 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 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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