Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Qureos
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
Qureos
Qureos is a Dubai-based AI recruiting platform whose Iris agents source candidates, score and rank applicants against recruiter-set criteria, and run AI voice and video interviews with personality scoring, alongside an ATS and a job-seeker marketplace focused on MENA and South Asia.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Handshake leads Qureos on all 7 criteria.
The Screening cohort pairing of Handshake and Qureos comes out 50 to 33 under rubric v1.0, a 17-point lead for Handshake. Handshake leads every one of the 7 criteria, Qureos none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Handshake 58 to Qureos 54. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Qureos 12 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake7
- Qureos0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 12
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and Qureos are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Qureos is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Qureos |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight43% of the movement so far
Handshake52Qureos127.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight68% of the movement so far
Handshake48Qureos284.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight79% of the movement so far
Handshake57Qureos441.9 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight89% of the movement so far
Handshake48Qureos351.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake30Qureos250.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake60Qureos520.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58Qureos540.5 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 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 +16.6.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Qureos, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Qureos | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 12 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 44 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 33F | +17 | +16.6 |
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 | Qureos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 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; Qureos has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Qureos, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Qureos last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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