Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs PageUp
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
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
The result
PageUp leads Handshake on all 7 criteria.
PageUp sits 14 points above Handshake under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 50 (F) — with PageUp filed under ATS-integrated and Handshake under Screening. Of the 7 criteria Handshake wins none, and the narrowest lead PageUp holds is on Customer Documentation, Handshake 60 to PageUp 63. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, PageUp 80) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Handshake 48, PageUp 74), 36% of the weighted advantage PageUp builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake0
- PageUp7
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 80
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, PageUp under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | PageUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight36% of the movement so far
Handshake48PageUp745.2 weighted points to PageUp
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight71% of the movement so far
Handshake52PageUp805.0 weighted points to PageUp
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight81% of the movement so far
Handshake30PageUp401.5 weighted points to PageUp
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight88% of the movement so far
Handshake57PageUp630.9 weighted points to PageUp
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake48PageUp550.8 weighted points to PageUp
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake58PageUp640.7 weighted points to PageUp
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60PageUp630.2 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 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 -14.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus PageUp, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | PageUp | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 74 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 80 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 64D | -14 | -14.4 |
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 | PageUp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 24 | 4 | 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; PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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