§ The result
Pinpoint leads Handshake by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Pinpoint, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 57 and Handshake, filed under Screening, on 50, 7 points apart. Pinpoint leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Handshake leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 48, Pinpoint 72 — and at a 20% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Pinpoint under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Handshake | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | JE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Pinpoint 72
4.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Pinpoint 42
1.8 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Pinpoint 68
1.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Pinpoint 38
1.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Pinpoint 64
0.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Pinpoint 52
0.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Pinpoint 66
0.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 72 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 68 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 57 (F) | -7 | -7.5 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 18 | 2 | 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; Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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