§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
The Assessment cohort pairing of Versant by Pearson and Pulsifi comes out 49 to 33 under rubric v1.0, a 16-point lead for Versant by Pearson. Versant by Pearson leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pulsifi none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Pulsifi 55 to Versant by Pearson 56. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pulsifi 30, Versant by Pearson 63 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
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
Pulsifi 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, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pulsifi 30 · Versant by Pearson 63
6.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · Versant by Pearson 42
4.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.9 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · Versant by Pearson 61
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pulsifi 55 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 63 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 53 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 43 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 61 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 49 (F) | -16 | -16.4 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | 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% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 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 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next