Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Knockri
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
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
Substantial gaps
Video interview
The result
3 points separate Handshake and Knockri.
Handshake holds a 3-point edge over Knockri under rubric v1.0, 50 to 47, across the Screening and Video interview cohorts. Knockri takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Handshake, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Knockri 35 — and at an 18% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake4
- Knockri3
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 35
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Knockri under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Knockri is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Knockri |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight40% of the movement so far
Handshake52Knockri353.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight60% of the movement so far
Handshake48Knockri351.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight78% of the movement so far
Handshake48Knockri551.4 weighted points to Knockri
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight88% of the movement so far
Handshake30Knockri350.8 weighted points to Knockri
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake60Knockri550.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake57Knockri550.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58Knockri600.2 weighted points to Knockri
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.9.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Knockri, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Knockri | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 47F | +3 | +2.9 |
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 | Knockri | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 36 | 5 | 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; Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Knockri sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 75 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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