Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs RecruitBot
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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
Handshake leads RecruitBot on all 7 criteria.
Handshake, filed under Screening, comes out 13 points above RecruitBot, filed under Sourcing: 50 against 37 under rubric v1.0. Handshake takes all 7 criteria and RecruitBot none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Handshake 30 to RecruitBot 27. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, RecruitBot 22 — 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
- RecruitBot0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 22
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Handshake is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight43% of the movement so far
Handshake52RecruitBot225.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight67% of the movement so far
Handshake48RecruitBot333.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight78% of the movement so far
Handshake57RecruitBot481.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight86% of the movement so far
Handshake58RecruitBot501.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake48RecruitBot401.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake30RecruitBot270.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60RecruitBot550.4 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus RecruitBot, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 48 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 37F | +13 | +12.5 |
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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | 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 | 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 | 25 | 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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