§ The result
Stepstone leads Willo by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Stepstone, filed under Screening, finishes on 49 and Willo, filed under Video interview, on 41, 8 points apart. Stepstone leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Willo leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Stepstone 50, Willo 30 — 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
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
Willo
Willo is a browser-based asynchronous (one-way) video interview platform that lets employers collect recorded video, audio, multiple-choice and written candidate responses, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize, rank candidates against employer-defined "Blueprint" criteria, and flag scripted or AI-generated answers.
§ The record
Stepstone is filed under Screening AI, Willo under Video interview 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 Willo is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Stepstone | Willo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | GB |
| Founded | 1996 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Stepstone 50 · Willo 30
3.6 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Stepstone 55 · Willo 38
3.4 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Stepstone 30 · Willo 25
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Stepstone 58 · Willo 62
0.5 weighted points to Willo
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Stepstone 58 · Willo 54
0.3 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Stepstone 55 · Willo 53
0.3 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Stepstone 38 · Willo 36
0.2 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Stepstone minus Willo.
| Category | Weight | Stepstone | Willo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 53 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 36 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 41 (F) | +8 | +8.1 |
§ 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 | Willo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Stepstone has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Willo has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains, and 14 for Willo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Willo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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