§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Versant by Pearson by 15 points.
Eightfold AI finishes 15 points clear of Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 49 (F) — across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Versant by Pearson takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 6 for Eightfold AI, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Eightfold AI 85, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
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
Eightfold AI 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 | Eightfold AI | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2016 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Versant by Pearson 42
7.7 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Versant by Pearson 63
2.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Versant by Pearson 30
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.1 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.8 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Eightfold AI 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 7 figures above sum to +14.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 63 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 42 | +43 | +7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 49 (F) | +15 | +14.7 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | 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 |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 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 Eightfold AI and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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