§ The result
Stepstone leads Qureos on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Stepstone opens a 16-point lead on Qureos, 49 to 33, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Stepstone takes all 7 criteria and Qureos none of them; the nearest contest is Post-Market Monitoring, Qureos 35 to Stepstone 38. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Qureos 12, Stepstone 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Qureos
Qureos is a Dubai-based AI recruiting platform whose Iris agents source candidates, score and rank applicants against recruiter-set criteria, and run AI voice and video interviews with personality scoring, alongside an ATS and a job-seeker marketplace focused on MENA and South Asia.
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
Qureos and Stepstone are both filed 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. Only Qureos is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Qureos | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AE | DE |
| Founded | 2021 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Qureos 12 · Stepstone 50
6.8 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Qureos 28 · Stepstone 55
5.4 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Qureos 44 · Stepstone 55
1.6 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Qureos 25 · Stepstone 30
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Qureos 54 · Stepstone 58
0.5 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Qureos 52 · Stepstone 58
0.5 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Qureos 35 · Stepstone 38
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.0 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 -16.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Qureos minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Qureos | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 55 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 12 | 50 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 49 (F) | -16 | -16.0 |
§ 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 | Qureos | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 6 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 28 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Qureos has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Qureos, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Qureos last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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