Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Pin
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
Pin
Pin is an AI recruiting agent that searches a database of 850M+ candidate profiles, scores and ranks candidates for fit, can automatically screen out non-matches (each with a one-line reason), and runs outreach and interview scheduling.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
Handshake leads Pin on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Handshake, filed under Screening, comes out 10 points above Pin, filed under Sourcing: 50 against 40 under rubric v1.0. Pin is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Handshake takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Post-Market Monitoring, Handshake 48 to Pin 45. The advantage Handshake holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 48, Pin 30, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points Handshake gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- Pin0
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation48 vs 30
- 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, Pin under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2024 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight38% of the movement so far
Handshake48Pin303.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight71% of the movement so far
Handshake52Pin353.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight82% of the movement so far
Handshake57Pin501.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight92% of the movement so far
Handshake58Pin501.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake60Pin550.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake48Pin450.4 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 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 +9.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Pin, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Pin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 40F | +10 | +9.4 |
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 | Pin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 32 | 5 | 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; Pin has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 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 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Pin, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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