§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Retorio on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Inside the Assessment cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Versant by Pearson on 49 and Retorio on 44, 5 points apart. Retorio is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Versant by Pearson takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Data Governance Disclosure, Retorio 52 to Versant by Pearson 53. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Retorio 50, Versant by Pearson 63 — and at a 20% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Retorio
Video-based AI that analyses words, voice, and facial expression/body language to infer Big Five (OCEAN) personality and behavioural traits.
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
Retorio 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, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Retorio | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Retorio 50 · Versant by Pearson 63
2.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Retorio 33 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Retorio 50 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.9 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Retorio 52 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.5 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Retorio 40 · Versant by Pearson 42
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Retorio 52 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Retorio minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Retorio | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 53 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 43 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 61 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 49 (F) | -5 | -5.7 |
§ 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 | Retorio | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 Retorio and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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