§ The result
Stepstone leads Prevue HR by 5 points.
Stepstone scores 49 and Prevue HR 44 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Stepstone, with 1 level: Stepstone is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Prevue HR on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Prevue HR 45, Stepstone 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Prevue HR
Prevue HR's psychometric platform tests candidates' aptitude, personality and motivations and compares the results with a custom role benchmark to produce a percentage Job Suitability score and Job-Fit report, alongside an optional applicant tracking system (APS Pro).
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
Prevue HR is filed under Assessment AI, Stepstone under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Prevue HR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Prevue HR | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | DE |
| Founded | 1994 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Prevue HR 45 · Stepstone 55
2.0 weighted points to Stepstone
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Prevue HR 44 · Stepstone 50
1.1 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Prevue HR 48 · Stepstone 55
1.1 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Prevue HR 54 · Stepstone 58
0.5 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Prevue HR 27 · Stepstone 30
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Prevue HR 40 · Stepstone 38
0.2 weighted points to Prevue HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Prevue HR minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Prevue HR | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 49 (F) | -5 | -4.8 |
§ 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 | Prevue HR | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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 | — | 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 | 1 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Prevue HR has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 Prevue HR and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Prevue HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Prevue HR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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