§ The result
Tenzo AI leads Versant by Pearson by 7 points.
Tenzo AI scores 56 and Versant by Pearson 49 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Versant by Pearson takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 6 for Tenzo AI, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Tenzo AI 83, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 74% of the weighted advantage Tenzo AI holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
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
Tenzo AI is filed under Screening AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Tenzo AI | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2024 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Tenzo AI 83 · Versant by Pearson 42
7.4 weighted points to Tenzo AI
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Tenzo AI 45 · Versant by Pearson 63
3.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Tenzo AI 40 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Tenzo AI 60 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Tenzo AI 55 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.3 weighted points to Tenzo AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Tenzo AI 45 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Tenzo AI 62 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to Tenzo AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Tenzo AI minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Tenzo AI | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 63 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 42 | +41 | +7.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 53 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 43 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 49 (F) | +7 | +6.4 |
§ 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 | Tenzo AI | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 4 | 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 |
Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 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 Tenzo AI 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 Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next