§ The result
1 point separates Versant by Pearson and Sova Assessment.
Versant by Pearson holds a 1-point edge over Sova Assessment under rubric v1.0, 49 to 48, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Versant by Pearson: Versant by Pearson is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Sova Assessment on FRIA Support. Versant by Pearson takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Sova Assessment 55, Versant by Pearson 63), which is 54% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, FRIA Support, Sova Assessment 40 to Versant by Pearson 30.
Vendor profile
Sova Assessment
Sova Assessment is a UK-based enterprise talent assessment platform combining personality questionnaires, cognitive and ability tests, situational judgement, video interviews, virtual assessment centres and AI-led role simulations into a single occupational-psychology-validated candidate scoring workflow.
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
Sova Assessment 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 | Sova Assessment | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sova Assessment 55 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sova Assessment 40 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sova Assessment 38 · Versant by Pearson 42
0.7 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sova Assessment 40 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sova Assessment 52 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sova Assessment 55 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sova Assessment 62 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sova Assessment minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Sova Assessment | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 53 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 43 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 49 (F) | -1 | -1.4 |
§ 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 | Sova Assessment | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 8 | 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 |
Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 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 Sova Assessment and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next