§ The result
Stepstone leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
The Screening cohort pairing of Stepstone and XOR comes out 49 to 30 under rubric v1.0, a 19-point lead for Stepstone. Stepstone takes all 7 criteria and XOR none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Stepstone 30 to XOR 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Stepstone 55, XOR 20, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 37% 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Stepstone and XOR 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.
| Record | Stepstone | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 1996 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Stepstone 55 · XOR 20
7.0 weighted points to Stepstone
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Stepstone 50 · XOR 18
5.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Stepstone 58 · XOR 40
2.2 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Stepstone 55 · XOR 42
1.9 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Stepstone 58 · XOR 48
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Stepstone 30 · XOR 25
0.8 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Stepstone 38 · XOR 33
0.6 weighted points to Stepstone
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +19.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Stepstone minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Stepstone | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 20 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 18 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 30 (F) | +19 | +19.0 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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