§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Handshake on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Eightfold AI, filed under Sourcing, comes out 14 points above Handshake, filed under Screening: 64 (D) against 50 (F) under rubric v1.0. Handshake is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Eightfold AI takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Human Oversight Design, Eightfold AI 60 to Handshake 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Eightfold AI 85, Handshake 52 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
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
Eightfold AI is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Handshake under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Handshake is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Eightfold AI | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Handshake 52
5.9 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Handshake 48
5.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Handshake 30
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Handshake 57
0.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · Handshake 58
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Handshake 48
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 48 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 52 | +33 | +5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 50 (F) | +14 | +14.5 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | 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 | 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% | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | 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 |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 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 Eightfold AI and Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next