§ The result
Stepstone leads Wonderlic on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Stepstone, filed under Screening, finishes on 49 and Wonderlic, filed under Assessment, on 43, 6 points apart. Stepstone takes all 7 criteria from Wonderlic without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Bias Audit Transparency, Stepstone 50 to Wonderlic 48. Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Stepstone 55, Wonderlic 38 — and at a 15% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 7 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
Wonderlic
Wonderlic Select (formerly WonScore) is a pre-employment assessment that combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation tests to score and rank candidates for job fit.
§ The record
Stepstone is filed under Screening AI, Wonderlic under Assessment 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 Wonderlic is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Stepstone | Wonderlic |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 1996 | 1937 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Stepstone 55 · Wonderlic 38
2.5 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Stepstone 30 · Wonderlic 25
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Stepstone 58 · Wonderlic 52
0.7 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Stepstone 55 · Wonderlic 52
0.6 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Stepstone 38 · Wonderlic 33
0.6 weighted points to Stepstone
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Stepstone 50 · Wonderlic 48
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Stepstone 58 · Wonderlic 55
0.2 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Stepstone minus Wonderlic.
| Category | Weight | Stepstone | Wonderlic | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 43 (F) | +6 | +5.8 |
§ 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 | Stepstone | Wonderlic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 6 | 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; Wonderlic has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 6 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains, and 15 for Wonderlic, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wonderlic last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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