§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Versant by Pearson on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters sits 13 points above Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 49 (F) — with SmartRecruiters filed under ATS-integrated and Versant by Pearson under Assessment. SmartRecruiters takes all 7 criteria and Versant by Pearson none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, SmartRecruiters 63 to Versant by Pearson 61. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (SmartRecruiters 78, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
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
SmartRecruiters 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 | SmartRecruiters | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2010 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Versant by Pearson 42
6.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Versant by Pearson 30
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 63 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 42 | +36 | +6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 43 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 61 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 49 (F) | +13 | +13.0 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 2 | 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 |
SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 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 SmartRecruiters and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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