§ The result
Dayforce leads Stepstone by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Dayforce, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 57 and Stepstone, filed under Screening, on 49, 8 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Dayforce: Dayforce is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Stepstone on Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage Dayforce holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Dayforce 74, Stepstone 55, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 39% of the weighted points Dayforce gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
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
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Stepstone under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dayforce | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 1992 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Stepstone 55
3.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Stepstone 30
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Stepstone 50
1.4 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Stepstone 55
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Stepstone 58
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Stepstone 38
1.1 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Stepstone 58
1.0 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 55 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 38 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 58 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 49 (F) | +8 | +8.3 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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