§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Entelo on all 7 criteria.
Versant by Pearson finishes 16 points clear of Entelo under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 33 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Versant by Pearson leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Entelo leads none. The advantage Versant by Pearson holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Entelo 30, Versant by Pearson 63, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 39% of the weighted points Versant by Pearson gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Entelo
Entelo is an AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that aggregates hundreds of millions of public candidate profiles and applies predictive machine-learning models to score, rank, and surface (including underrepresented) candidates for recruiters.
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
Entelo is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Entelo | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2011 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Entelo 30 · Versant by Pearson 63
6.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Entelo 20 · Versant by Pearson 42
4.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Entelo 42 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.7 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Entelo 40 · Versant by Pearson 61
1.7 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Entelo 45 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Entelo 35 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Entelo 25 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Entelo minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Entelo | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 63 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 53 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 43 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 61 | -21 | -1.7 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 49 (F) | -16 | -16.8 |
§ 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 | Entelo | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Entelo has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 8 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Entelo, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Entelo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next