§ The result
Stepstone leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
The Screening cohort pairing of Stepstone and Emi comes out 49 to 33 under rubric v1.0, a 16-point lead for Stepstone. Of the 7 criteria Emi wins none, and the narrowest lead Stepstone holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Emi 35 to Stepstone 38. The advantage Stepstone holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emi 18, Stepstone 50, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Stepstone gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
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
Emi 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 | Emi | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AR | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Stepstone 50
5.8 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Stepstone 55
5.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Stepstone 58
1.7 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Stepstone 55
1.6 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Stepstone 58
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Stepstone 30
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Stepstone 38
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 55 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 50 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 58 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 49 (F) | -16 | -16.4 |
§ 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 | Emi | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 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 Emi and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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