The result

2 points separate Handshake and The Predictive Index.

Handshake (Screening) edges The Predictive Index (Assessment) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 50 to 48. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Handshake, with 1 level: Handshake is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and The Predictive Index on FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, The Predictive Index 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 4 criteria it leads.

Criteria won

7 criteria

  • Handshake4
  • The Predictive Index2
  • Level1
Widest raw gap
Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 45
Heaviest weighted swing
Bias Audit Transparency18% weight

The record

Categories, scope and company facts.

Handshake is filed under Screening AI, The Predictive Index under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.

RecordHandshakeThe Predictive Index
Price tierMidMid
HeadquartersUSUS
Founded20141955

What decides it

The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.

  1. Bias Audit Transparency

    18% weight31% of the movement so far

    Handshake52
    The Predictive Index45

    1.3 weighted points to Handshake

  2. FRIA Support

    15% weight50% of the movement so far

    Handshake30
    The Predictive Index35

    0.8 weighted points to The Predictive Index

  3. Human Oversight Design

    12% weight68% of the movement so far

    Handshake58
    The Predictive Index52

    0.7 weighted points to Handshake

  4. Post-Market Monitoring

    12% weight83% of the movement so far

    Handshake48
    The Predictive Index43

    0.6 weighted points to Handshake

  5. Article 11 Technical Documentation

    20% weight93% of the movement so far

    Handshake48
    The Predictive Index50

    0.4 weighted points to The Predictive Index

  6. Data Governance Disclosure

    15% weight100% of the movement so far

    Handshake57
    The Predictive Index55

    0.3 weighted points to Handshake

Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.7.

Category-by-category

Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.

Δ is Handshake minus The Predictive Index, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.

CategoryWeightHandshakeThe Predictive IndexΔ rawΔ weighted
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%4850-2-0.4
Bias Audit Transparency18%5245+7+1.3
FRIA Support15%3035-5-0.8
Data Governance Disclosure15%5755+2+0.3
Human Oversight Design12%5852+6+0.7
Post-Market Monitoring12%4843+5+0.6
Customer Documentation8%6060--
Total100%50F48F+2+1.7

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.

CriterionWeightHandshakeThe Predictive Index
CitedAbsencesAudit / hostingCitedAbsencesAudit / hosting
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%41Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain31Sources on the vendor's own domain
Bias Audit Transparency18%51Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain21Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain
FRIA Support15%31Sources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Data Governance Disclosure15%41Sources on the vendor's own domain40Sources on the vendor's own domain
Human Oversight Design12%41Sources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Post-Market Monitoring12%31Sources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Customer Documentation8%41Sources on the vendor's own domain31Sources on the vendor's own domain
All criteria100%277Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain186Audit 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; The Predictive Index has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 6 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 24 for The Predictive Index, across 1 distinct source domain.

Rubric
v1.0
Handshake last reviewed
September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
The Predictive Index last reviewed
July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team

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