§ The result
Handshake leads ConverzAI by 6 points.
Handshake finishes 6 points ahead of ConverzAI under rubric v1.0, 50 to 44, both scored as Screening entries. ConverzAI takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 4 for Handshake, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Handshake takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (ConverzAI 30, Handshake 48), which is 40% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, ConverzAI 72 to Handshake 52.
Vendor profile
ConverzAI
ConverzAI's Virtual Recruiter is an agentic voice, SMS and email AI agent for staffing firms. It contacts applicants within minutes, runs role-specific screening interviews, scores candidates' fit to open jobs and updates the firm's ATS.
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
ConverzAI and Handshake are both filed under Screening 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 | ConverzAI | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ConverzAI 30 · Handshake 48
3.6 weighted points to Handshake
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ConverzAI 72 · Handshake 52
3.6 weighted points to ConverzAI
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ConverzAI 40 · Handshake 57
2.5 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ConverzAI 45 · Handshake 58
1.6 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ConverzAI 45 · Handshake 60
1.2 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ConverzAI 50 · Handshake 48
0.2 weighted points to ConverzAI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ConverzAI minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | ConverzAI | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 48 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 52 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 57 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 50 (F) | -6 | -5.1 |
§ 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 | ConverzAI | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 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 |
ConverzAI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 ConverzAI and Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for ConverzAI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ConverzAI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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