Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs JazzHR
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
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Handshake leads JazzHR on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and JazzHR, filed under ATS-integrated, on 44, 6 points apart. JazzHR is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Handshake takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Handshake 30 to JazzHR 28. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, JazzHR 35 — and at an 18% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- JazzHR0
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 35
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, JazzHR under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | JazzHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2009 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight53% of the movement so far
Handshake52JazzHR353.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight66% of the movement so far
Handshake57JazzHR520.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight79% of the movement so far
Handshake48JazzHR420.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight89% of the movement so far
Handshake48JazzHR450.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake60JazzHR560.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake30JazzHR280.3 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 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 +5.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus JazzHR, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | JazzHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 44F | +6 | +5.8 |
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 | JazzHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 17 | 7 | Sources 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; JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and JazzHR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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