Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Toggl Hire
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
Toggl Hire
Toggl Hire is a skills-first hiring platform (now being retired) that screens candidates with auto-graded skills tests, async video interviews and homework assignments, bundled with a lightweight ATS.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Handshake leads Toggl Hire on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Handshake sits 13 points above Toggl Hire under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 37 — with Handshake filed under Screening and Toggl Hire under Assessment. Handshake leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Toggl Hire is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Handshake leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Handshake 57 to Toggl Hire 55. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, Toggl Hire 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- Toggl Hire0
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 20
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Toggl Hire under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Toggl Hire is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | EE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2013 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight45% of the movement so far
Handshake52Toggl Hire205.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight73% of the movement so far
Handshake48Toggl Hire303.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight86% of the movement so far
Handshake48Toggl Hire351.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight92% of the movement so far
Handshake60Toggl Hire500.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake58Toggl Hire520.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57Toggl Hire550.3 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Toggl Hire, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Toggl Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 37F | +13 | +12.7 |
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 | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 10 | 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; Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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