§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Handshake by 7 points.
Apriora (Alex) scores 57 and Handshake 50 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Handshake takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 5 for Apriora (Alex), whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Apriora (Alex) 83, Handshake 52) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 70% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
Handshake
Handshake is an early-career recruiting network whose employer tools use AI to rank applicants against employer-set criteria, find and message matching students and graduates, and target job promotions.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Handshake under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Apriora (Alex) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Handshake 52
5.6 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Handshake 30
1.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Handshake 48
0.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Handshake 57
0.4 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Handshake 58
0.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Handshake 60
0.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Handshake 48
0.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 52 | +31 | +5.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 57 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 48 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 50 (F) | +7 | +7.4 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next