§ The result
Versant by Pearson leads Workstream by 10 points.
Versant by Pearson sits 10 points above Workstream under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 39 — with Versant by Pearson filed under Assessment and Workstream under Screening. Versant by Pearson leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Workstream leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Versant by Pearson 63, Workstream 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Workstream
Workstream is a mobile-first HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as QSR franchisees. Its hiring suite pairs a text-to-apply applicant tracking system with VoiceAI phone screens and VideoAI asynchronous video interviews, which return transcripts, AI summaries, pass/fail results for each question and match scores.
§ The record
Versant by Pearson is filed under Assessment AI, Workstream under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Versant by Pearson | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 1844 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Versant by Pearson 63 · Workstream 40
4.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Versant by Pearson 42 · Workstream 20
4.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Versant by Pearson 43 · Workstream 35
1.0 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Versant by Pearson 53 · Workstream 47
0.9 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Versant by Pearson 56 · Workstream 61
0.6 weighted points to Workstream
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Versant by Pearson 30 · Workstream 27
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Versant by Pearson 61 · Workstream 56
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Versant by Pearson minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | Versant by Pearson | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 40 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 47 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 61 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 35 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 56 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 39 (F) | +10 | +10.7 |
§ 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 | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 28 | 6 | 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; Workstream has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Versant by Pearson and Workstream 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: 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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