§ The result
Stepstone leads RecruitBot by 12 points.
Stepstone, filed under Screening, comes out 12 points above RecruitBot, filed under Sourcing: 49 against 37 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Stepstone: Stepstone is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and RecruitBot on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — RecruitBot 22, Stepstone 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
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
RecruitBot is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Stepstone under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Stepstone is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | RecruitBot | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · Stepstone 50
5.0 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · Stepstone 55
4.4 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · Stepstone 55
1.1 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · Stepstone 58
1.0 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · Stepstone 30
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RecruitBot 40 · Stepstone 38
0.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 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 -11.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 55 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 49 (F) | -12 | -11.9 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | 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% | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 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 |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 RecruitBot and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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