§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads RecruitBot on all 7 criteria.
Versant by Pearson sits 12 points above RecruitBot under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 37 — with Versant by Pearson filed under Assessment and RecruitBot under Sourcing. Versant by Pearson leads every one of the 7 criteria, RecruitBot none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, RecruitBot 27 to Versant by Pearson 30. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (RecruitBot 33, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 49% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
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
RecruitBot is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | RecruitBot | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · Versant by Pearson 63
6.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · Versant by Pearson 42
3.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.8 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.7 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.5 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RecruitBot 40 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 63 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 42 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 53 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 43 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 61 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 49 (F) | -12 | -12.4 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 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 RecruitBot and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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