§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Recruitly by 8 points.
Versant by Pearson scores 49 and Recruitly 41 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Versant by Pearson leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruitly leads 3, including FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruitly 15, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 49% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting 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
Recruitly 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 | Recruitly | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AE | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Versant by Pearson 42
4.9 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · Versant by Pearson 63
3.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.5 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 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 -8.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 63 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 42 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 53 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 43 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 61 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 49 (F) | -8 | -8.4 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 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 Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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