§ The result
3 points separate HiredScore and Stepstone.
HiredScore (Sourcing) edges Stepstone (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 52 to 49. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of HiredScore, with 2 level: HiredScore is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Stepstone on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HiredScore 65, Stepstone 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 61% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore 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 | HiredScore | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2012 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Stepstone 55
2.0 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Stepstone 50
0.9 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Stepstone 38
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Stepstone 58
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Stepstone 58
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 55 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 49 (F) | +3 | +2.9 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 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 HiredScore and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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