§ The result
Bryq leads Handshake by 7 points.
Bryq scores 57 and Handshake 50 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Bryq: Bryq is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Handshake on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Bryq 70, Handshake 52) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
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
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Handshake under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Handshake 52
3.2 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Handshake 30
1.5 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Handshake 48
1.2 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Handshake 48
0.8 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Handshake 57
0.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Handshake 58
0.5 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Handshake 60
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.5 — 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 +7.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 52 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 50 (F) | +7 | +7.5 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | 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 |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 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 Bryq and Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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