Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Greenhouse vs Versant by Pearson
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.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
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
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.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Greenhouse7
- Versant by Pearson0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency86 vs 42
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
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
Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of
| 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.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight45% of the movement so far
Greenhouse86Versant by Pearson427.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight62% of the movement so far
Greenhouse78Versant by Pearson633.0 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight72% of the movement so far
Greenhouse42Versant by Pearson301.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight82% of the movement so far
Greenhouse58Versant by Pearson431.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight92% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Versant by Pearson531.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight99% of the movement so far
Greenhouse66Versant by Pearson561.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Versant by Pearson610.2 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, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| 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% | 67D | 49F | +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.
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- 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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