§ The result
Pymetrics (Harver Games) takes the total, Stepstone takes more of the criteria.
Pymetrics (Harver Games) scores 56 and Stepstone 49 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Stepstone leads more of the criteria than Pymetrics (Harver Games) — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Pymetrics (Harver Games). One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80, Stepstone 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 59% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
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
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 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 Pymetrics (Harver Games) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2013 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80 · Stepstone 50
5.4 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70 · Stepstone 55
3.0 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50 · Stepstone 58
1.0 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 25 · Stepstone 30
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 60 · Stepstone 55
0.8 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35 · Stepstone 38
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55 · Stepstone 58
0.2 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 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 +6.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pymetrics (Harver Games) minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 50 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 49 (F) | +7 | +6.8 |
§ 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 2 | 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 |
Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 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 Pymetrics (Harver Games) and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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