§ The result
Handshake leads Prevue HR on all 7 criteria.
Handshake scores 50 and Prevue HR 44 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Handshake is ahead of Prevue HR on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Customer Documentation at Handshake 60 to Prevue HR 58. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap (Handshake 57, Prevue HR 48) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Handshake 52, Prevue HR 44), 26% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Prevue HR
Prevue HR's psychometric platform tests candidates' aptitude, personality and motivations and compares the results with a custom role benchmark to produce a percentage Job Suitability score and Job-Fit report, alongside an optional applicant tracking system (APS Pro).
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Prevue HR under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Prevue HR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Handshake | Prevue HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 1994 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Prevue HR 44
1.4 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Prevue HR 48
1.3 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Prevue HR 40
1.0 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Prevue HR 45
0.6 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Prevue HR 54
0.5 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Prevue HR 27
0.4 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Prevue HR 58
0.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Prevue HR.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Prevue HR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 44 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 48 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 44 (F) | +6 | +5.4 |
§ 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 | Prevue HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 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 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 28 | 6 | Sources 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; Prevue HR has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Prevue HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Prevue HR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Prevue HR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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