Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Vervoe
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
Vervoe
AI-powered skills-assessment platform that grades and ranks candidates on performance in role-specific, task-based assessments.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
4 points separate Handshake and Vervoe.
Handshake holds a 4-point edge over Vervoe under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Vervoe takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Handshake, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 48, Vervoe 28 — and at a 12% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- Vervoe1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring48 vs 28
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Vervoe under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Vervoe is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Vervoe |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight54% of the movement so far
Handshake48Vervoe282.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight71% of the movement so far
Handshake30Vervoe250.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight84% of the movement so far
Handshake48Vervoe450.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight91% of the movement so far
Handshake57Vervoe550.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake58Vervoe600.2 weighted points to Vervoe
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60Vervoe580.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 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 +4.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Vervoe, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Vervoe | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 46F | +4 | +4.0 |
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 | Vervoe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Vervoe has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Vervoe, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vervoe last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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