§ The result
Wellfound takes the total, Versant by Pearson takes more of the criteria.
Wellfound holds a 3-point edge over Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0, 52 to 49, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Versant by Pearson leads more of the criteria, 5 against 2 for Wellfound, yet Wellfound takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Versant by Pearson 42, Wellfound 82 — and at an 18% weight it carries 78% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 2 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
Wellfound
Wellfound is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform whose wellfound:ai suite auto-generates screening criteria from a job description, then scores and ranks inbound applicants (AI Resume Screening) and surfaces outbound candidates from a talent graph of 10M opt-in Wellfound profiles plus 500M+ enriched external profiles.
§ The record
Versant by Pearson is filed under Assessment AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 1844 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Versant by Pearson 42 · Wellfound 82
7.2 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Versant by Pearson 63 · Wellfound 40
4.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Versant by Pearson 43 · Wellfound 60
2.0 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Versant by Pearson 53 · Wellfound 45
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Versant by Pearson 56 · Wellfound 52
0.5 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Versant by Pearson 30 · Wellfound 28
0.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Versant by Pearson 61 · Wellfound 58
0.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Versant by Pearson minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Versant by Pearson | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 40 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 82 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 45 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 60 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 58 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 52 (F) | -3 | -2.4 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources 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; Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Versant by Pearson and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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