Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Wellfound
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
Wellfound
Wellfound is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform whose wellfound:ai suite auto-generates screening criteria from a job description, then scores and ranks inbound applicants (AI Resume Screening) and surfaces outbound candidates from a talent graph of 10M opt-in Wellfound profiles plus 500M+ enriched external profiles.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Wellfound takes the total, Handshake takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Wellfound and Handshake finish 2 points apart, 52 to 50, as two Screening entries. Handshake leads more of the criteria than Wellfound — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Wellfound leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Wellfound. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, Wellfound 82) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 79% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- Wellfound2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 82
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and Wellfound are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight47% of the movement so far
Handshake52Wellfound825.4 weighted points to Wellfound
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight63% of the movement so far
Handshake57Wellfound451.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight77% of the movement so far
Handshake48Wellfound401.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight90% of the movement so far
Handshake48Wellfound601.4 weighted points to Wellfound
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake58Wellfound520.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight99% of the movement so far
Handshake30Wellfound280.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60Wellfound580.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Wellfound, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 82 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 52F | -2 | -2.3 |
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 | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 22 | 9 | 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; Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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