§ The result
1 point separates Xobin and Versant by Pearson.
Within the Assessment cohort, Xobin edges Versant by Pearson by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 50 to 49. Versant by Pearson takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for Xobin, whose share includes FRIA Support. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Versant by Pearson 30, Xobin 35 — and at a 15% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Xobin holds across the 4 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
Xobin
Xobin is a talent-assessment platform that sells skills, coding, communication and psychometric tests alongside generative-AI answer scoring (AI Evaluate), AI-led interviews, AI proctoring and NURA, an AI recruiting agent that parses resumes, interviews candidates and builds shortlists.
§ The record
Versant by Pearson and Xobin 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 | Versant by Pearson | Xobin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 1844 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Versant by Pearson 30 · Xobin 35
0.8 weighted points to Xobin
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Versant by Pearson 53 · Xobin 57
0.6 weighted points to Xobin
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Versant by Pearson 43 · Xobin 38
0.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Versant by Pearson 56 · Xobin 58
0.2 weighted points to Xobin
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Versant by Pearson 63 · Xobin 62
0.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Versant by Pearson 42 · Xobin 43
0.2 weighted points to Xobin
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Versant by Pearson 61 · Xobin 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 -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.6 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 -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Versant by Pearson minus Xobin.
| Category | Weight | Versant by Pearson | Xobin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 43 | -1 | -0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 57 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 38 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 60 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 50 (F) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | Xobin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 6 | 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 domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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; Xobin 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 Xobin 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 Xobin, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Xobin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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