§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
Versant by Pearson sits 13 points above micro1 under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 36 — with Versant by Pearson filed under Assessment and micro1 under Screening. Of the 7 criteria micro1 wins none, and the narrowest lead Versant by Pearson holds is on FRIA Support, micro1 22 to Versant by Pearson 30. The advantage Versant by Pearson holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (micro1 20, Versant by Pearson 42, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 30% of the weighted points Versant by Pearson gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
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
micro1 is filed under Screening AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | micro1 | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2022 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · Versant by Pearson 42
4.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · Versant by Pearson 63
2.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · Versant by Pearson 43
2.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · Versant by Pearson 61
1.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is micro1 minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 53 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 56 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 43 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 61 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 49 (F) | -13 | -13.4 |
§ 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 | micro1 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources 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% | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 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% | 2 | 2 | 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% | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 micro1 and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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