Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Workstream
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
Workstream
Workstream is a mobile-first HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as QSR franchisees. Its hiring suite pairs a text-to-apply applicant tracking system with VoiceAI phone screens and VideoAI asynchronous video interviews, which return transcripts, AI summaries, pass/fail results for each question and match scores.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Handshake leads Workstream by 11 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Screening entries Handshake and Workstream at 50 and 39, a gap of 11 points. Workstream takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Handshake, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Workstream 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- Workstream1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 20
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and Workstream are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Workstream is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight50% of the movement so far
Handshake52Workstream205.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight64% of the movement so far
Handshake48Workstream401.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight77% of the movement so far
Handshake48Workstream351.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight90% of the movement so far
Handshake57Workstream471.5 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight94% of the movement so far
Handshake30Workstream270.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake58Workstream610.4 weighted points to Workstream
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60Workstream560.3 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Workstream, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 47 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 61 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 39F | +11 | +10.8 |
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 | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 28 | 6 | 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; Workstream has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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