Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs RippleMatch
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
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
4 points separate Handshake and RippleMatch.
Handshake holds a 4-point edge over RippleMatch under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46, across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. RippleMatch takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for Handshake, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 48, RippleMatch 37 — and at a 12% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- RippleMatch1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring48 vs 37
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight37% of the movement so far
Handshake48RippleMatch371.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight67% of the movement so far
Handshake57RippleMatch501.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight80% of the movement so far
Handshake30RippleMatch270.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight91% of the movement so far
Handshake48RippleMatch460.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake52RippleMatch530.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58RippleMatch570.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus RippleMatch, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 46 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 53 | -1 | -0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 37 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 46F | +4 | +3.2 |
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 | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 7 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 76 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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