§ The result
Handshake leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Handshake finishes 15 points clear of Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 35 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Handshake takes all 7 criteria and Ceipal none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Ceipal 25 to Handshake 30. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Ceipal 20, Handshake 52, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Handshake under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Handshake is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Handshake 52
5.8 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Handshake 48
3.6 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Handshake 57
1.6 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Handshake 58
1.4 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Handshake 48
1.2 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Handshake 30
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Handshake 60
0.6 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 48 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 52 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 57 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 50 (F) | -15 | -15.0 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 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 Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next