§ The result
PageUp leads Stepstone on all 7 criteria.
PageUp finishes 15 points clear of Stepstone under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 49 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Stepstone wins none, and the narrowest lead PageUp holds is on Customer Documentation, PageUp 63 to Stepstone 58. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (PageUp 80, Stepstone 50, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage PageUp holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
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
PageUp is filed under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | PageUp | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | DE |
| Founded | 1997 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
PageUp 80 · Stepstone 50
5.4 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
PageUp 74 · Stepstone 55
3.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
PageUp 55 · Stepstone 38
2.0 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
PageUp 40 · Stepstone 30
1.5 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
PageUp 63 · Stepstone 55
1.2 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
PageUp 64 · Stepstone 58
0.7 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
PageUp 63 · Stepstone 58
0.4 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 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 +15.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is PageUp minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | PageUp | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 55 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 50 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 49 (F) | +15 | +15.1 |
§ 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 | PageUp | 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | 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 |
PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 PageUp and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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