Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Willo
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
Willo
Willo is a browser-based asynchronous (one-way) video interview platform that lets employers collect recorded video, audio, multiple-choice and written candidate responses, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize, rank candidates against employer-defined "Blueprint" criteria, and flag scripted or AI-generated answers.
Substantial gaps
Video interview
The result
Handshake leads Willo by 9 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and Willo, filed under Video interview, on 41, 9 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Handshake: Handshake is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Willo on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Willo 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- Willo1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 30
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Willo under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Willo is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Willo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight41% of the movement so far
Handshake52Willo304.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight61% of the movement so far
Handshake48Willo382.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight76% of the movement so far
Handshake48Willo361.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight84% of the movement so far
Handshake30Willo250.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight90% of the movement so far
Handshake57Willo530.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake58Willo620.5 weighted points to Willo
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60Willo540.5 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Willo, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Willo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 53 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 36 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 41F | +9 | +8.8 |
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 | Willo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Willo has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Willo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Willo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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