§ 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.
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
Vervoe
AI-powered skills-assessment platform that grades and ranks candidates on performance in role-specific, task-based assessments.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Vervoe under Assessment 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 Vervoe is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| 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.
12% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Vervoe 28
2.4 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Vervoe 25
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Vervoe 45
0.6 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Vervoe 55
0.3 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Vervoe 60
0.2 weighted points to Vervoe
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Vervoe 58
0.2 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.
| 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% | 50 (F) | 46 (F) | +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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§ Where next