§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Vincere by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Versant by Pearson, filed under Assessment, finishes on 49 and Vincere, filed under ATS-integrated, on 44, 5 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Versant by Pearson: Versant by Pearson is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Vincere on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Versant by Pearson 42, Vincere 18 — and at an 18% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Vincere
Access Vincere Evo is a recruitment-agency CRM and ATS from The Access Group whose Copilot AI scores candidates against a job on a 1-5 star scale, ranks the closest matches from the agency database, and generates job ads, candidate summaries and screening chatbots.
§ The record
Versant by Pearson is filed under Assessment AI, Vincere under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Versant by Pearson | Vincere |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 1844 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Versant by Pearson 42 · Vincere 18
4.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Versant by Pearson 63 · Vincere 55
1.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Versant by Pearson 30 · Vincere 38
1.2 weighted points to Vincere
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Versant by Pearson 43 · Vincere 40
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Versant by Pearson 53 · Vincere 55
0.3 weighted points to Vincere
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Versant by Pearson 56 · Vincere 55
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Versant by Pearson 61 · Vincere 60
0.1 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 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 +5.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Versant by Pearson minus Vincere.
| Category | Weight | Versant by Pearson | Vincere | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 18 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 55 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 40 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 60 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 44 (F) | +5 | +5.0 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | Vincere | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Vincere has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Versant by Pearson and Vincere sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Vincere, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vincere last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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