§ The result
1 point separates Stepstone and Workable.
Stepstone holds a 1-point edge over Workable under rubric v1.0, 49 to 48, across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Stepstone and Workable, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Stepstone holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Stepstone 50, Workable 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 3 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
Workable
Workable is an all-in-one applicant tracking system and HR platform whose AI feature layer (Workable AI / Workable Agent) sources, screens, scores, and matches candidates and drafts recruiting content within the recruiting workflow.
§ The record
Stepstone is filed under Screening AI, Workable under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | Stepstone | Workable |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 1996 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Stepstone 50 · Workable 42
1.4 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Stepstone 30 · Workable 25
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Stepstone 58 · Workable 62
0.5 weighted points to Workable
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Stepstone 38 · Workable 42
0.5 weighted points to Workable
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Stepstone 55 · Workable 58
0.4 weighted points to Workable
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Stepstone 58 · Workable 56
0.2 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Stepstone minus Workable.
| Category | Weight | Stepstone | Workable | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 48 (F) | +1 | +0.9 |
§ 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 | Stepstone | Workable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Workable has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Stepstone and Workable sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains, and 17 for Workable, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workable last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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