§ The result
Stepstone leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Stepstone (Screening) opens a 15-point lead on HireQuotient (Sourcing), 49 to 34. Stepstone leads every one of the 7 criteria, HireQuotient none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, HireQuotient 57 to Stepstone 58. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HireQuotient 18, Stepstone 50, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient 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, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | 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
HireQuotient 18 · Stepstone 50
5.8 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Stepstone 55
4.0 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Stepstone 55
2.3 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Stepstone 30
1.2 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Stepstone 38
1.0 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Stepstone 58
0.6 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Stepstone 58
0.1 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 55 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 50 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 49 (F) | -15 | -14.9 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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