Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs SeekOut
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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake7
- SeekOut0
- Widest raw gap
- Customer Documentation60 vs 35
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Data Governance Disclosure15% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Handshake is in scope of
| 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.
- 1
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight22% of the movement so far
Handshake57SeekOut353.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight40% of the movement so far
Handshake48SeekOut252.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight57% of the movement so far
Handshake48SeekOut352.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight72% of the movement so far
Handshake52SeekOut402.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight85% of the movement so far
Handshake60SeekOut352.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake58SeekOut451.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
FRIA Support
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake30SeekOut250.8 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, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| 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% | 50F | 34F | +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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