§ The result
Handshake leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Handshake finishes 16 points clear of Zappyhire inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 50 against 34. Handshake leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Handshake 30 to Zappyhire 25. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 52, Zappyhire 28, 18% weight), is only 28% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Handshake and Zappyhire are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Handshake | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Zappyhire 28
4.3 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Zappyhire 30
3.6 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Zappyhire 28
2.4 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Zappyhire 42
2.3 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Zappyhire 45
1.2 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Zappyhire 50
1.0 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 42 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 34 (F) | +16 | +15.5 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 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 | 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; Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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