§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Recruit CRM by 9 points.
Versant by Pearson scores 49 and Recruit CRM 40 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Versant by Pearson: Versant by Pearson is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Recruit CRM on FRIA Support. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Recruit CRM 34, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 58% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
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
Recruit CRM is filed under ATS-integrated 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 and Colorado AI Act. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruit CRM | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | Not recorded | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruit CRM 34 · Versant by Pearson 63
5.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruit CRM 20 · Versant by Pearson 42
4.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruit CRM 34 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruit CRM 58 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruit CRM 54 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.1 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruit CRM 42 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruit CRM 60 · Versant by Pearson 61
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 -9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruit CRM minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Recruit CRM | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 63 | -29 | -5.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 30 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 53 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 43 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 49 (F) | -9 | -9.0 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 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 Recruit CRM and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruit CRM 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