§ The result
4 points separate Versant by Pearson and Dover.
Versant by Pearson holds a 4-point edge over Dover under rubric v1.0, 49 to 45, across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Dover and Versant by Pearson, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Versant by Pearson holds, headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation, settle the total. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dover 34, Versant by Pearson 63 — and at a 20% weight it carries 92% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dover
Dover is an AI recruiting platform for startups offering a free applicant tracking system, candidate sourcing via a LinkedIn/Copilot browser extension, OpenAI/Anthropic-powered 0-100 applicant scoring, and a fractional-recruiter marketplace.
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
Dover is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dover | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Versant by Pearson 63
5.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Versant by Pearson 42
1.8 weighted points to Dover
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.2 weighted points to Dover
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.1 weighted points to Dover
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dover 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 -4.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 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 -4.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 63 | -29 | -5.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 53 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 43 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 49 (F) | -4 | -4.2 |
§ 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 | Dover | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 2 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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% | 13 | 4 | 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 |
Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 Dover and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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