§ The result
Stepstone leads HeroHunt.ai on all 7 criteria.
Stepstone finishes 19 points clear of HeroHunt.ai under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 30 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Stepstone leads every one of the 7 criteria, HeroHunt.ai none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, HeroHunt.ai 27 to Stepstone 30. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HeroHunt.ai 10, Stepstone 50, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Stepstone builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
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
HeroHunt.ai 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, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | DE |
| Founded | 2021 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Stepstone 50
7.2 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Stepstone 55
7.0 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Stepstone 55
1.5 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Stepstone 38
1.2 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Stepstone 58
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Stepstone 30
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Stepstone 58
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 50 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 49 (F) | -19 | -18.5 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | 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% | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 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 |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 HeroHunt.ai and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next