§ The result
iMocha leads Stepstone by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, iMocha, filed under Assessment, finishes on 56 and Stepstone, filed under Screening, on 49, 7 points apart. Stepstone takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for iMocha, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. The advantage iMocha holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (iMocha 68, Stepstone 55, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 32% of the weighted points iMocha gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
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
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, Stepstone under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only iMocha is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | DE |
| Founded | 2015 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · Stepstone 55
2.6 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Stepstone 55
1.6 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Stepstone 30
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Stepstone 38
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Stepstone 50
1.1 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Stepstone 58
0.7 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Stepstone 58
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 49 (F) | +7 | +6.9 |
§ 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 | iMocha | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 21 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 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 iMocha 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 iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next