§ The result
Tenzo AI leads Handshake by 6 points.
Inside the Screening cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Tenzo AI on 56 and Handshake on 50, 6 points apart. Handshake takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Tenzo AI, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Tenzo AI 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 75% of the weighted advantage Tenzo AI holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
Handshake and Tenzo AI are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tenzo AI is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Handshake | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Tenzo AI 83
5.6 weighted points to Tenzo AI
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Tenzo AI 40
1.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Tenzo AI 45
0.6 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Tenzo AI 45
0.4 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Tenzo AI 55
0.3 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Tenzo AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Tenzo AI 62
0.2 weighted points to Tenzo AI
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 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 83 | -31 | -5.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 56 (F) | -6 | -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 | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 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 | 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 | 30 | 4 | 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; Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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