§ The result
Handshake leads Moonhub on all 7 criteria.
Handshake finishes 20 points clear of Moonhub under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 30 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Handshake leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Moonhub leads none. The advantage Handshake holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 52, Moonhub 18, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 32% of the weighted points Handshake gains 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
Moonhub
Moonhub is an AI recruiting platform whose agents (Qualify AI, Engage AI, Monitor AI) search, score, outreach to, and engage candidates across more than a billion public and proprietary profiles, working alongside human expert recruiters who vet candidates before presenting them.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Moonhub 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.
| Record | Handshake | Moonhub |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Moonhub 18
6.1 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Moonhub 30
3.6 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Moonhub 22
3.1 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Moonhub 40
2.5 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Moonhub 38
1.8 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Moonhub 48
1.2 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Moonhub 25
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +19.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Moonhub.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Moonhub | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 18 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 22 | +26 | +3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 38 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 30 (F) | +20 | +19.1 |
§ 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 | Moonhub | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 6 | 7 | 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; Moonhub has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for Moonhub, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Moonhub last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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