§ The result
Beamery leads Stepstone by 12 points.
Beamery, filed under Sourcing, comes out 12 points above Stepstone, filed under Screening: 61 (D) against 49 (F) under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Beamery, with 1 level: Beamery is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Stepstone on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Beamery 85, Stepstone 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Beamery holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Beamery
Talent CRM and sourcing platform that maintains a long-lived candidate pipeline, with AI-driven matching and skills inference.
Vendor profile
Stepstone
Stepstone is a German job marketplace whose Stepstone Recruit employer platform includes an AI Screening Agent, which rates each application against requirements taken from the job ad, and a Talent Finder, which recommends candidates from a CV database of more than 4 million profiles.
§ The record
Beamery is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Stepstone under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Stepstone is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Beamery | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | DE |
| Founded | 2013 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Beamery 85 · Stepstone 50
6.3 weighted points to Beamery
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Beamery 70 · Stepstone 55
3.0 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Beamery 60 · Stepstone 38
2.6 weighted points to Beamery
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Beamery 60 · Stepstone 55
0.8 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Beamery 55 · Stepstone 58
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Beamery 60 · Stepstone 58
0.2 weighted points to Beamery
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Beamery minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Beamery | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 50 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 38 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 49 (F) | +12 | +12.5 |
§ 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 | Beamery | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Beamery has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Stepstone has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Beamery and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Beamery, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Beamery last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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