Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs TestGorilla
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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
3 points separate Handshake and TestGorilla.
Handshake (Screening) edges TestGorilla (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 50 to 47. TestGorilla takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Handshake, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, TestGorilla 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake4
- TestGorilla2
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, TestGorilla under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only TestGorilla is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight50% of the movement so far
Handshake52TestGorilla382.5 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight73% of the movement so far
Handshake48TestGorilla381.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight89% of the movement so far
Handshake48TestGorilla520.8 weighted points to TestGorilla
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight94% of the movement so far
Handshake58TestGorilla600.2 weighted points to TestGorilla
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake60TestGorilla580.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57TestGorilla560.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus TestGorilla, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 47F | +3 | +3.0 |
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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 14 | 5 | 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; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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