§ The result
Pinpoint leads Stepstone by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Pinpoint, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 57 and Stepstone, filed under Screening, on 49, 8 points apart. Stepstone takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Pinpoint, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Pinpoint 72, Stepstone 55, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
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
Pinpoint is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Stepstone under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Pinpoint | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | JE | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pinpoint 72 · Stepstone 55
3.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pinpoint 68 · Stepstone 55
1.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pinpoint 52 · Stepstone 38
1.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pinpoint 42 · Stepstone 50
1.4 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pinpoint 38 · Stepstone 30
1.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pinpoint 64 · Stepstone 58
0.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pinpoint 66 · Stepstone 58
0.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pinpoint minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Pinpoint | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 55 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 49 (F) | +8 | +8.2 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 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 Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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