§ The result
PageUp leads Versant by Pearson on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, PageUp (ATS-integrated) opens a 15-point lead on Versant by Pearson (Assessment), 64 (D) to 49 (F). PageUp takes all 7 criteria and Versant by Pearson none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, PageUp 63 to Versant by Pearson 61. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — PageUp 80, Versant by Pearson 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage PageUp holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
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
PageUp 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 | PageUp | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 1997 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
PageUp 80 · Versant by Pearson 42
6.8 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
PageUp 74 · Versant by Pearson 63
2.2 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
PageUp 40 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.5 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
PageUp 63 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.5 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
PageUp 55 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.4 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
PageUp 64 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.0 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
PageUp 63 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.2 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is PageUp minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | PageUp | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 63 | +11 | +2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 42 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 53 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 56 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 43 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 61 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 49 (F) | +15 | +14.6 |
§ 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 | PageUp | 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% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 24 | 4 | 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 |
PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 PageUp and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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