Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs micro1
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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Handshake leads micro1 by 14 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Screening entries Handshake and micro1 at 50 and 36, a gap of 14 points. Handshake leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while micro1 leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, micro1 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- micro11
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 20
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and micro1 are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only micro1 is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2022 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight40% of the movement so far
Handshake52micro1205.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight59% of the movement so far
Handshake48micro1252.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight72% of the movement so far
Handshake57micro1451.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight80% of the movement so far
Handshake30micro1221.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight89% of the movement so far
Handshake58micro1481.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake60micro1451.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake48micro1500.4 weighted points to micro1
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus micro1, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 25 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 36F | +14 | +13.5 |
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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 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 | 1 | 2 | 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 | 7 | 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 | 2 | 2 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 8 | 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; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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