§ The result
Handshake takes the total, HiBob takes more of the criteria.
Handshake (Screening) edges HiBob (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46. HiBob leads more of the criteria than Handshake — 4 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Handshake leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Handshake. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, HiBob 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 98% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, HiBob under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Handshake | HiBob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · HiBob 20
5.8 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · HiBob 55
1.4 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · HiBob 35
0.8 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · HiBob 63
0.6 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · HiBob 47
0.1 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · HiBob 61
0.1 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus HiBob.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | HiBob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 57 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 47 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 46 (F) | +4 | +3.0 |
§ 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 | Handshake | HiBob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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