Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs iMocha
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
iMocha leads Handshake by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, iMocha, filed under Assessment, finishes on 56 and Handshake, filed under Screening, on 50, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of iMocha, with 1 level: iMocha is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Handshake on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 48, iMocha 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage iMocha holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake1
- iMocha5
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation48 vs 68
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, iMocha under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only iMocha is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | iMocha |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight44% of the movement so far
Handshake48iMocha684.0 weighted points to iMocha
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight59% of the movement so far
Handshake52iMocha441.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight74% of the movement so far
Handshake57iMocha661.3 weighted points to iMocha
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight87% of the movement so far
Handshake30iMocha381.2 weighted points to iMocha
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake58iMocha640.7 weighted points to iMocha
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60iMocha660.5 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 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 -6.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus iMocha, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | iMocha | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 68 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 44 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 66 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 48 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 56F | -6 | -6.3 |
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 | iMocha | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 21 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and iMocha 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: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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