§ The result
Fuel50 leads Versant by Pearson by 9 points.
Fuel50 scores 58 and Versant by Pearson 49 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Fuel50 leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Versant by Pearson leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Fuel50 68, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
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
Fuel50 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, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fuel50 | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2011 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · Versant by Pearson 42
4.7 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.6 weighted points to Fuel50
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fuel50 70 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.4 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.6 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fuel50 40 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fuel50 32 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fuel50 62 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to Fuel50
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 63 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 42 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 53 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 56 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 43 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 49 (F) | +9 | +8.3 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 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 |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 Fuel50 and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next