Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Tribepad
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
Tribepad
Tribepad is a UK applicant tracking system whose built-in Sidekick AI assistant scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted skills and generates candidate summaries, SWOT analyses, job descriptions, salary suggestions and interview questions.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Tribepad leads Handshake by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Tribepad, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 56 and Handshake, filed under Screening, on 50, 6 points apart. Tribepad leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Handshake leads 2, including Customer Documentation, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Tribepad 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Tribepad holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake2
- Tribepad3
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 78
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Tribepad under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Tribepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2008 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight64% of the movement so far
Handshake52Tribepad784.7 weighted points to Tribepad
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight86% of the movement so far
Handshake48Tribepad561.6 weighted points to Tribepad
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake48Tribepad540.7 weighted points to Tribepad
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake60Tribepad580.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57Tribepad560.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -6.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 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 -6.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Tribepad, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Tribepad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 56 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 78 | -26 | -4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 54 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 56F | -6 | -6.7 |
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 | Tribepad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 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; Tribepad has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Tribepad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Tribepad, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tribepad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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