§ The result
Stepstone leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Stepstone finishes 16 points clear of Pulsifi under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 33 — across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Stepstone leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pulsifi none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Pulsifi 55 to Stepstone 58. The advantage Stepstone holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Pulsifi 20, Stepstone 50, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 34% of the weighted points Stepstone gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
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
Pulsifi 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, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · Stepstone 50
5.4 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pulsifi 30 · Stepstone 55
5.0 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · Stepstone 55
2.3 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · Stepstone 38
1.2 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · Stepstone 58
1.0 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · Stepstone 30
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pulsifi 55 · Stepstone 58
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 50 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 49 (F) | -16 | -15.9 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | 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 | — | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | 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% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 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 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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