Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Vincere
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
Vincere
Access Vincere Evo is a recruitment-agency CRM and ATS from The Access Group whose Copilot AI scores candidates against a job on a 1-5 star scale, ranks the closest matches from the agency database, and generates job ads, candidate summaries and screening chatbots.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Handshake leads Vincere by 6 points.
Handshake scores 50 and Vincere 44 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Handshake leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Vincere leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, Vincere 18) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 79% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake4
- Vincere2
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 18
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Vincere under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Vincere |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight59% of the movement so far
Handshake52Vincere186.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight73% of the movement so far
Handshake48Vincere551.4 weighted points to Vincere
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight84% of the movement so far
Handshake30Vincere381.2 weighted points to Vincere
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight94% of the movement so far
Handshake48Vincere401.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake58Vincere550.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57Vincere550.3 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 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 +5.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Vincere, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Vincere | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 18 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 44F | +6 | +5.1 |
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 | Vincere | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 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; Vincere has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Vincere 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 Vincere, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vincere last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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