Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Ribbon
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
Ribbon
Ribbon is an AI recruiter that runs voice and video screening interviews with applicants around the clock, scores each interview against default and custom rubrics, ranks candidates for recruiter review, and syncs the results to 60+ applicant tracking systems.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Handshake leads Ribbon by 7 points.
Handshake finishes 7 points ahead of Ribbon under rubric v1.0, 50 to 43, both scored as Screening entries. Ribbon takes 1 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 6 for Handshake, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Handshake 52, Ribbon 38, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- Ribbon1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and Ribbon are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Ribbon is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2020 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight36% of the movement so far
Handshake52Ribbon382.5 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight54% of the movement so far
Handshake48Ribbon371.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight71% of the movement so far
Handshake48Ribbon421.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight86% of the movement so far
Handshake57Ribbon501.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake30Ribbon330.4 weighted points to Ribbon
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake58Ribbon550.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60Ribbon580.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Ribbon, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Ribbon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 37 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 43F | +7 | +6.2 |
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 | Ribbon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | 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; Ribbon has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Ribbon 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 Ribbon, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ribbon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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