Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Pulsifi
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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Handshake leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Handshake finishes 17 points clear of Pulsifi under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 33 — across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Handshake takes all 7 criteria and Pulsifi none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Handshake 58 to Pulsifi 55. The advantage Handshake holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 52, Pulsifi 20, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Handshake gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake7
- Pulsifi0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 20
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Pulsifi is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight35% of the movement so far
Handshake52Pulsifi205.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight57% of the movement so far
Handshake48Pulsifi303.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight72% of the movement so far
Handshake57Pulsifi402.5 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight87% of the movement so far
Handshake48Pulsifi282.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake60Pulsifi461.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake30Pulsifi250.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58Pulsifi550.4 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Pulsifi, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 46 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 33F | +17 | +16.5 |
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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | 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 | 26 | 7 | 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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