§ The result
Stepstone leads ConverzAI by 5 points.
Stepstone scores 49 and ConverzAI 44 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Screening cohort. Stepstone leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while ConverzAI leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ConverzAI 30, Stepstone 55 — and at a 20% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ConverzAI
ConverzAI's Virtual Recruiter is an agentic voice, SMS and email AI agent for staffing firms. It contacts applicants within minutes, runs role-specific screening interviews, scores candidates' fit to open jobs and updates the firm's ATS.
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
ConverzAI and Stepstone are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ConverzAI | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2019 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ConverzAI 30 · Stepstone 55
5.0 weighted points to Stepstone
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ConverzAI 72 · Stepstone 50
4.0 weighted points to ConverzAI
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ConverzAI 40 · Stepstone 55
2.3 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ConverzAI 45 · Stepstone 58
1.6 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ConverzAI 50 · Stepstone 38
1.4 weighted points to ConverzAI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ConverzAI 45 · Stepstone 58
1.0 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 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 -4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ConverzAI minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | ConverzAI | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 50 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 49 (F) | -5 | -4.4 |
§ 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 | ConverzAI | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | 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 |
ConverzAI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Stepstone has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ConverzAI and Stepstone 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: 30 for ConverzAI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ConverzAI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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