Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Gloat vs Versant by Pearson
Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered internal talent marketplace and "agentic HR" platform that matches an employer's existing employees to internal job openings, gigs, projects, mentorships, and learning based on inferred skills and career goals.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
2 points separate Versant by Pearson and Gloat.
Versant by Pearson (Assessment) edges Gloat (Sourcing) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 49 to 47. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Versant by Pearson: Versant by Pearson is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Gloat on Data Governance Disclosure. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Gloat 48, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 72% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Gloat3
- Versant by Pearson4
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation48 vs 63
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Gloat is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Gloat | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1844 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight53% of the movement so far
Gloat48Versant by Pearson633.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight66% of the movement so far
Gloat58Versant by Pearson530.8 weighted points to Gloat
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight79% of the movement so far
Gloat38Versant by Pearson420.7 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight91% of the movement so far
Gloat62Versant by Pearson560.7 weighted points to Gloat
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight96% of the movement so far
Gloat28Versant by Pearson300.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight99% of the movement so far
Gloat42Versant by Pearson430.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Gloat62Versant by Pearson610.1 weighted points to Gloat
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.6.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gloat minus Versant by Pearson, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Gloat | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 63 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 53 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 43 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 47F | 49F | -2 | -2.6 |
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 | Gloat | 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% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 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% | 21 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Gloat has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Gloat, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gloat last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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