Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Talkpush
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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
4 points separate Handshake and Talkpush.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake and Talkpush finish 4 points apart, 50 to 46, as two Screening entries. Talkpush takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for Handshake, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. One criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 57, Talkpush 44) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- Talkpush1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Data Governance Disclosure57 vs 44
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Data Governance Disclosure15% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and Talkpush are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Talkpush is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2014 | 2014 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight36% of the movement so far
Handshake57Talkpush441.9 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight68% of the movement so far
Handshake52Talkpush421.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight83% of the movement so far
Handshake48Talkpush520.8 weighted points to Talkpush
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight91% of the movement so far
Handshake30Talkpush270.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake58Talkpush560.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake48Talkpush460.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 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 +3.9.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Talkpush, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 44 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 46 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 46F | +4 | +3.9 |
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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 21 | 7 | 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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