§ The result
Greenhouse leads Versant by Pearson on all 7 criteria.
Greenhouse finishes 18 points clear of Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 49 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Versant by Pearson wins none, and the narrowest lead Greenhouse holds is on Customer Documentation, Greenhouse 64 to Versant by Pearson 61. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Greenhouse 86, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
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
Greenhouse is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Greenhouse | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Greenhouse 86 · Versant by Pearson 42
7.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Greenhouse 78 · Versant by Pearson 63
3.0 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Greenhouse 42 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Greenhouse 58 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Greenhouse 64 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Greenhouse 66 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Greenhouse 64 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Greenhouse minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 63 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 86 | 42 | +44 | +7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 53 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 56 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 43 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 61 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 49 (F) | +18 | +17.6 |
§ 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 | Greenhouse | 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 16 | 1 | 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 |
Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 Greenhouse 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 Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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