§ 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.
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
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.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Pulsifi 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 Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| 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.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Pulsifi 20
5.8 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Pulsifi 30
3.6 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Pulsifi 40
2.5 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Pulsifi 28
2.4 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Pulsifi 46
1.1 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Pulsifi 25
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Pulsifi 55
0.4 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.
| 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% | 50 (F) | 33 (F) | +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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