§ The result
3 points separate Stepstone and Talkpush.
Under rubric v1.0, Stepstone and Talkpush finish 3 points apart, 49 to 46, as two Screening entries. Stepstone leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Talkpush leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring. The advantage Stepstone holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Stepstone 55, Talkpush 44, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points Stepstone gains across the 5 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Stepstone and Talkpush are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Talkpush is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Stepstone | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | HK |
| Founded | 1996 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Stepstone 55 · Talkpush 44
1.6 weighted points to Stepstone
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Stepstone 50 · Talkpush 42
1.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Stepstone 38 · Talkpush 46
1.0 weighted points to Talkpush
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Stepstone 55 · Talkpush 52
0.6 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Stepstone 30 · Talkpush 27
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Stepstone 58 · Talkpush 56
0.2 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Stepstone 58 · Talkpush 60
0.2 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Stepstone minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Stepstone | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 46 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 46 (F) | +3 | +3.3 |
§ 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 | Stepstone | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Stepstone has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Stepstone and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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