§ The result
Handshake leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake (Screening) opens a 16-point lead on HireQuotient (Sourcing), 50 to 34. Handshake takes all 7 criteria and HireQuotient none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Handshake 58 to HireQuotient 57. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 52, HireQuotient 18, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 7 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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing 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. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Handshake | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · HireQuotient 18
6.1 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · HireQuotient 35
2.6 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · HireQuotient 40
2.5 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · HireQuotient 30
2.2 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · HireQuotient 22
1.2 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · HireQuotient 50
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · HireQuotient 57
0.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 18 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 34 (F) | +16 | +15.5 |
§ 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 | Handshake | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 24 | 5 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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