§ The result
Pinpoint leads Versant by Pearson on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Pinpoint scores 57 and Versant by Pearson 49 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Pinpoint leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Versant by Pearson is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Pinpoint leads is Customer Documentation, Pinpoint 66 to Versant by Pearson 61. The advantage Pinpoint holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Pinpoint 68, Versant by Pearson 53, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 29% of the weighted points Pinpoint gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
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
Pinpoint 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 | Pinpoint | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | JE | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pinpoint 68 · Versant by Pearson 53
2.3 weighted points to Pinpoint
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pinpoint 72 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pinpoint 38 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pinpoint 52 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.1 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pinpoint 64 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.0 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pinpoint 66 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pinpoint minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Pinpoint | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 63 | +9 | +1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 53 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 56 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 43 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 61 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 49 (F) | +8 | +7.7 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 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 Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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