§ The result
Handshake leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Handshake finishes 16 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 34 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Handshake leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Data Governance Disclosure among them; SeekOut leads none. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Handshake 60, SeekOut 35) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Handshake 57, SeekOut 35), 22% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds 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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Handshake is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Handshake | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · SeekOut 35
3.3 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · SeekOut 25
2.8 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · SeekOut 35
2.6 weighted points to Handshake
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · SeekOut 40
2.2 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · SeekOut 35
2.0 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · SeekOut 45
1.6 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 35 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 25 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 34 (F) | +16 | +15.1 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 5 | 4 | 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; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 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 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next