Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs X0PA AI
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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
2 points separate Handshake and X0PA AI.
Handshake holds a 2-point edge over X0PA AI under rubric v1.0, 50 to 48, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Handshake leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while X0PA AI leads 2, including FRIA Support, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, X0PA AI 44 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake4
- X0PA AI2
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 44
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, X0PA AI under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only X0PA AI is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight34% of the movement so far
Handshake52X0PA AI441.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight62% of the movement so far
Handshake30X0PA AI381.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight84% of the movement so far
Handshake48X0PA AI401.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight94% of the movement so far
Handshake48X0PA AI500.4 weighted points to X0PA AI
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake57X0PA AI560.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58X0PA AI570.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 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 +1.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus X0PA AI, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 44 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 48F | +2 | +1.1 |
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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on a separate 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 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; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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