§ The result
iMocha leads Versant by Pearson on all 7 criteria.
Inside the Assessment cohort, rubric v1.0 puts iMocha on 56 and Versant by Pearson on 49, 7 points apart. iMocha is ahead of Versant by Pearson on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at iMocha 44 to Versant by Pearson 42. The advantage iMocha holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (iMocha 66, Versant by Pearson 53, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 30% of the weighted points iMocha gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
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
iMocha and Versant by Pearson are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.9 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.0 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.0 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.4 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Versant by Pearson 42
0.4 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 63 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 53 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 56 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 43 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 61 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 49 (F) | +7 | +6.5 |
§ 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 | iMocha | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 21 | 5 | 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 |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 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 iMocha and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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