§ The result
Handshake leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Handshake finishes 17 points clear of Emi inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 50 against 33. Of the 7 criteria Emi wins none, and the narrowest lead Handshake holds is on FRIA Support, Emi 25 to Handshake 30. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emi 18, Handshake 52, 18% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
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
Emi 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 | Emi | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AR | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Handshake 52
6.1 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Handshake 48
4.0 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Handshake 57
1.9 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Handshake 58
1.7 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Handshake 48
1.6 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Handshake 60
1.0 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Handshake 30
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 48 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 52 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 57 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 58 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 48 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 50 (F) | -17 | -17.0 |
§ 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 | Emi | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 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 a separate 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% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 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 Emi and Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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