Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Pillar
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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Handshake leads Pillar on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Handshake sits 10 points above Pillar under rubric v1.0, 50 against 40, with both filed under Screening. Handshake leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Pillar is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Handshake leads is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Handshake 48 to Pillar 42. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Handshake 48, Pillar 33) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Handshake 52, Pillar 38), 27% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- Pillar0
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring48 vs 33
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and Pillar are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Pillar is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight27% of the movement so far
Handshake52Pillar382.5 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight46% of the movement so far
Handshake57Pillar451.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight66% of the movement so far
Handshake48Pillar331.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight79% of the movement so far
Handshake48Pillar421.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight91% of the movement so far
Handshake58Pillar481.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60Pillar500.8 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Pillar, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 40F | +10 | +9.3 |
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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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